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
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