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Operating Systems Solaris 2 questions regarding the WGET command Post 302308518 by newbie09 on Sunday 19th of April 2009 02:25:46 AM
Old 04-19-2009
2 questions regarding the WGET command
I'm using the "wget" command to get the date from Yahoo.com. So this is what I use on Solaris:

/usr/sfw/bin/wget --timeout=3 -S Yahoo!

This works well when my computer is linked to the Net. But when it's not, this command just hangs. I thought putting the timemout = 3 will make this command stop in 3 seconds, but it doesn't. Does anyone know what the exact command is to make this command stop after a few seconds if it can't make a connection to the Net?

Also, when this command runs successfully, it creates a file called "index.html" What do I need to do so that it doesn't automatically create the file "index.html" in my local directory? Thanks.
 

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www::search::yahoo::news::advanced

WWW::Search::Yahoo::News::Advanced(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   WWW::Search::Yahoo::News::Advanced(3pm)

NAME

       WWW::Search::Yahoo::News::Advanced - search Yahoo!News using the "advanced" interface

SYNOPSIS

	 use WWW::Search;
	 my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Yahoo::News::Advanced');
	 my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("George Lucas");
	 $oSearch->date_from('7 days ago');
	 $oSearch->date_to  ('now');
	 $oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
	 while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
	   print $oResult->url, "
";

DESCRIPTION

       This class is a Yahoo! News specialization of WWW::Search.  It handles making and interpreting searches on Yahoo! News
       http://news.yahoo.com using the Advanced search interface.

       This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.

NOTES

       This backend supports narrowing the search by date-range.  Use date_from() and date_to() to set the endpoints of the desired date range.
       You can use any date format supported by the Date::Manip module.

       NOTE that Yahoo only seems to keep the last 60 days worth of news in its searchable index.

       At one time, News.yahoo.com would die if the unescaped query is longer than 485 characters or so.  This backend does NOT check for that.

SEE ALSO

       To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search.

BUGS

       To report a new bug, please use https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Create.html?Queue=WWW-Search-Yahoo

AUTHOR

       "WWW::Search::Yahoo::News::Advanced" is maintained by Martin Thurn (mthurn@cpan.org).

LEGALESE

       Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn

       THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
       MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

perl v5.12.4							    2011-11-02				   WWW::Search::Yahoo::News::Advanced(3pm)
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