Re: automating lynx
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| On (08/10/05 12:08), Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
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| From: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>
| To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
| Subject: Re: automating lynx
| Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:08:51 +0200
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| On l?rdag 08 oktober 2005, 00:24, Mark Lijftogt wrote:
| > > I am trying to get create a cron job that will go fetch a doc file
| > > from a particular web site.
| >
Curl may be a better option for http/https. It is the most powerful tool for
this other than writing your own. I would suggest looking into that instead.
| > I would suggest to use wget instead of lynx in this case.
|
| Yep, I would suggest that too, but it sounded like the OP had to get
| links and then retrieve a specific page from that, and that adds to the
| complexity. If it gets really complex, I might suggest writing an Perl
| LWP script. The LWP packages are rather imposing, but once you look at
| it, the examples are excellent, so even with software that powerful,
| you can get some speed quickly.
|
| Hmmm, right now search.cpan.org had problems, but that's the place to go
| to read the documentation in a nicely formatted variant.
|
| Cheers,
|
| Kjetil
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