On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> I don't think you can use lynx from cron; it needs a controlling terminal.
export TERM=linux ; /usr/bin/lynx -dump \
http://www.whatever.com > /tmp/whatever-dump.txt
works fine in cron, and will extract data from a remote
websit
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 21:03, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> I don't think you can use lynx from cron; it needs a controlling terminal.
I have a Perl script that I run from cron. It's not pretty (I know
almost nothing about Perl); it just works.
It's something like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict
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
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
r
Probably a good idea anyway. This way I can learn more :)
Thanks for the information
Joe
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:46, Vidiot wrote:
> >Any examples you could give for extracting the data? I'm not that savvy
> >on programming :-P
> >Joe
>
> That question is SO open ended.
>
> I have no idea wh
>Any examples you could give for extracting the data? I'm not that savvy
>on programming :-P
>Joe
That question is SO open ended.
I have no idea what the web pages look like. It is probably going to require
that you do get savvy with scripting, be it sed, awk, sh or perl.
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Hay, now your talking :-P... That works great so far.
Thanks
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:31, Michael Schwendt wrote:
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> On 09 Dec 2002 10:01:06 -0700, Joe Giles wrote:
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> > I have been tasked with grabbing various internal websites that have
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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
> >tex
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On 09 Dec 2002 10:01:06 -0700, Joe Giles 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 sen
>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 t
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:01:06AM -0700, Joe Giles wrote:
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> 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.
Have a look at wget
List,
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
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