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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help with simple korn scripting Post 302277201 by samnyc on Thursday 15th of January 2009 04:13:30 PM
Old 01-15-2009
Thank you so much, it's working now. I need to learn so much, I worked on this for hours and I could not get it correct. You are able to solve it in minutes. :-)
 

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TWILL(1)							  [FIXME: manual]							  TWILL(1)

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twill-sh - a simple scripting language for Web browsing SYNOPSIS
twill-sh [option] [script(s)] DESCRIPTION
Twill is a simple language that allows users to browse the Web from a command-line interface. With twill, you can navigate through Web sites that use forms, cookies, and most standard Web features. twill-sh lets you interactively browse the Web. OPTIONS
--help/-h print usage information --version/-v Show version information and exit --quiet/-q Do not show normal output --interactive/-i Drop into an interactive shell after running files if any --fail/-f Exit on first file which fails --never-fail/-n Continue executing scripts even if errors occur --url/-u URL Start at the given URL before each script SEE ALSO
twill-fork (1). AUTHORS
Twill was written by C. Titus Brown titus@idyll.org and This manual page was written by Arnaud Fontaine arnau@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007 Arnaud Fontaine [FIXME: source] april 10, 2007 TWILL(1)
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