On 09-Dec-2002/12:16 -0800, "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 9 Dec 2002, Joe Giles wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>wget, lynx, and curl will all do this in some fashion or other (see the 
>relevent man pages). All are CLI tools, and are usable from cron.

I don't think you can use lynx from cron; it needs a controlling terminal.

Tony
-- 
Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E>
OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26  C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D
AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05    HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/>
Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/>



-- 
redhat-list mailing list
unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Reply via email to