Any examples you could give for extracting the data? I'm not that savvy
on programming :-P

Thanks

Joe

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:20, Vidiot wrote:
> >I have been tasked with grabbing various internal websites that have
> >basic text data on them and grabbing and storing that data in another
> >text file without opening up the web page itself. Make sense?  Example.
> >
> >www.myinternalwebsite.com has a location called deployment_packages.htm.
> >I want to grab the data from that page (Which is plain text) and dump it
> >into another text document not located on the same server. I would like
> >to do this from a cron job if possible.
> >
> >Is there a way to do this with Linux?
> 
> Use wget to grab the HTML file from the web site.  Then use whatever scripting
> language you want to parse the file to extract what is required.
> 
> MB
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