Re: automating lynx

["Cameron L. Spitzer" <cls@truffula.sj.ca.us>]

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In article <4V8zG-1OS-1@gated-at.bofh.it>, Joe Mc Cool wrote:
> Please,
>
> I am trying to get create a cron job that will go fetch a doc file
> from a particular web site.
>
> I had hoped to run:
>
> 	lynx -cmd_log my_script http://www.siteiwant.com
>
> navigate (entering passwords etc) to the file I want and fetch it.
>
> Then I would:
>
> 	lynx -cmd_script my_script http://www.siteiwant.com
>
> But after logging in lynx presents me with a blank screen, not the

Try it as lynx -cmd_log=my_script http://www.siteiwant.com
You're missing the equals between -cmd_log and its parameter.

Cameron