-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 daniel wrote:
>1. grab a page off the web >2. process it with a perl script > >that's it >i thought something like > wget www.site.com/index.html | perlscript.pl >would work >but no >instead it just downloaded the index.html file and exited Silly goose. That's because wget doesn't send its output to sdout. It goes to a file. You'll have to pick a different option: - - cat the file after the wget, - - use 'script.pl < filename' after wget, or perhaps - - use something like 'lynx -dump <url>' to get the desired effect. Cheers ... -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPHFU1L9BpdPKTBGtEQJUYACbB6+U1mXwVrah/6k11CGxGsbNICAAoLD9 bxAnmPEB97F80V6u2KGj6rM3 =9rxQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
