Re: plug] How to execute 'lynx {url.address}' in a shell sc…

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Josef Lowder wrote:

>
> Anyone know how I could execute 'lynx {url.address]' in a shell script
> and capture the output to a file as a background task?

I use this scriptlet all the time, to 'snapshot' web content
to stdout (as into a pipe to mail it to myself)

If it is used as in a cron task which does not have a
controlling tty, add a line toward the top:

export TERM="xterm"

- Russ Herrold

[herrold@dhcp11 ~]$ cat `which lynxdump`
#!/bin/sh
#
#       /usr/local/bin/lynxdump
#
#       Dump a webpage at $1, and locale to std out
#
[ -z $1 ] && {
         echo "Usage: $0 URL"
         exit 1
         }
#
( echo -n "HTML dump on " ; echo -n ; date  ; \
         echo -n "     " ; echo "$1" ; echo ; \
         lynx -dump "$1" )
#

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