Accessing web elements from cli

Darrell Shandrow plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:28:36 -0700


Hi Kyle,

What you're looking for is a utility called wget, which is likely already to
be on your system.  Just do man wget, and let me know if I can help further.

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle Faber" <kyle@emr.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 4:25 PM
Subject: Accessing web elements from cli


> All,
>
> Fooling around with a little bash script and I was wondering if it is
> possible to access web-based information utilizing the cli.  For example,
how
> could I get the following to actually work:
>
> grep "some string" http://www.somesite.com/textfile.txt
>
> the script is just not complicated enough to warrant anything more than
bash.
> Anybody have any ideas?
>
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