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Re: getting batch information from web sites. Lynx, htget, wget?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Mon Nov 23 20:18:18 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:19:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Eric Wood wrote:
> I'd like to send this URL:
> http://wwwapps.ups.com/transit/timetran.cgi?origin=30096&dest=70345
>
> to a utility and have it return the resulting webpage to a file. This
> way I can get information in batches. I've tried
>
> $ lynx
> http://wwwapps.ups.com/transit/timetran.cgi?origin=30096&dest=70345 >
> result_file.txt
>
> but lynx doesn't exit. I don't know of a lynx option switch to make it
> exit after receiving a web page. Does htget or wget utilities do this?
>
Eric... I use this script to mirror a website:
#!/bin/sh
#note... the next 3 lines are typed as all one line!
cd /home/httpd/html/unix; /usr/bin/lynx -dump
ftp://shell5.ba.best.com/pub/aturner/redhat-faq.tar.gz | /bin/gunzip
| /bin/tar xvf -
So Lynx will do what you want!
Cheers!
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Chuck Mead, CEO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc. <chuck@moongroup.com>
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