---
name: "hlins"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "hlins"
version: "0.40-1+b3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hlins"
---

# hlins(1)

insert url's into html documents

## NAME

hlins - insert url's into html documents

## SYNOPSIS

**hlins** \[*options*\] \[*infile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**hlins** is a program that inserts hypertext links into html documents, according to one or several data bases associating addresses (url's) to names. **hlins** is designed for inserting links for persons: It knows about abbreviations of first and middle names and tolerated dropping of the last part of a  composite last name.

If no file argument is given then input is taken from stdin; when no output option (see below) is given then output goes to stdout.

For a complete description, see the documentation in html format.

## OPTIONS

**hlins** follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`--').

- **-o, --output-file *file***

  Write to *file* instead of standard output

- **-h, --help**

  Show a summary of options.

- **-v, --version**

  Show the version of the program.

- **-q, --quiet**

  Suppress diagnostic output.

- **-db, --data-bases *files* ...**

  Use *files* ... as data bases

- **-m, --modify *files* ...**

  Don't act as filter but perform in-place modifications of *files*.

- **-R, --recursive**

  Recursively descend into directories and act on all files with names ending on *.html*.

- **-td, --tmp-dir *dir***

  Use directory *dir* to create temporary files.

- **--db-to-html**

  List the address data bases in HTML format to stdout.

## ENVIRONMENT

- **TMPDIR**

  default directory for creating temporay files.

## VERSION

This manual pages describes version 0.39.

## SEE ALSO

The full documentation with examples should be available in **/usr/share/doc/hlins/**.\
 See also the hlins home page **http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/~treinen/hlins/**.

## AUTHOR

Ralf Treinen \<treinen@debian.org\>.