Here is a very rough outline of one way to do it. It works but needs a lot of polishing and may not be the method you want to use. I didn't fool around with the logfile name or any error checking.
"while true; do [stuff]; done" is an infinite loop. "read" just sits there and waits for you to input something, which it then puts in the LINK variable. If that something is "stop," it will say "Im exiting" and exit. The exec command is what makes it exit in this example, it runs one command then exits. For anything except "stop," it asks for a file name, then curl gets the link and puts it in that file. If curl succeeds, it echos the name and link to a logfile.
edit to add: I'm certainly not a guru and this is just a rough example. Don't take it as The Way Things Should Be Done.
Keeping in mind that I'm relatively comfortable with programming in general but very new to unix and korn/bourne shell scripts..
I'm using awk on a CSV file, and then performing calculations and operations on specific fields within specific records. The CSV file I'm working with has about 600... (2 Replies)
I had the idea come into my head that it would be good to have a single command that gave file type, file size, last modification date, and owner/group information, like what one would see in a GUI "Properties" dialog, but all in a terminal window. In my opinion, these statistics about a file... (5 Replies)
I'm running a curl command in bash, but the & in the middle causes the second half of the line to run in the background, here's what I'm trying to do:
lat="37.451"
lon="-122.18"
url="http://ws.geonames.org/findNearestAddress?lat=$lat&lng=$lon"
curl -s "$url"
I tried escaping the & with \&,... (4 Replies)
Hello experts!
I have a file1 with the following format (yr,day, month, hour,minute):
201201132435
201202141210
201304132030
201410100110
...
What i want to do is to assign variables and then use them in the curl command to download the text of each event from a web page.
What I have... (6 Replies)
On RHEL5 from within both a shell (sh->bash) and a csh script curl fails with a "curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'application'" error.
This is the result whether run as a command at the shell and/or c-shell prompt and curl also fails with the same error when the scripts are "source'd" at the... (5 Replies)
I am trying to use REST API and curl in a bash script to generate a http report. The curl command at the end of the script should generate a html file but instead I get an error "HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable".
This is the script
#!/bin/bash
export... (7 Replies)
Hello.
I have pick up a script from internet to track errors from curl command.
#!/bin/bash
#
URL_TO_TEST="http://www.xxxxxx.yyy"
MY_VAR=curl_init("$URL_TO_TEST") ;
curl_setopt($MY_VAR, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($MY_VAR, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($MY_VAR,... (2 Replies)
Hello Experts ,
I have an use case which needed your help . I have been using google for 2 days buy couldn`t succed , i believe i can get the help here.
Here is my use case to run on bash shell
1. Access an URL -- in script , it will be mentioned as inputURL
2. Once i accessed the URL... (1 Reply)
Hello,
My question is about curl command. (ubuntu14.04)
In terminal, I am able to download my mainfile with:
curl -u user1:pass1 http://11.22.33.44/*******
When I convert it into bash script like this:
#!/bin/bash
cd /root/scripts
computer_ip=11.22.33.44
curl -u $1:$2... (8 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
script
script(1) User Commands script(1)NAME
script - make record of a terminal session
SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename]
DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the
record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS.
The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends
when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed.
OPTIONS
The following option is supported:
-a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it.
NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO attributes(5)WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a
privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script.
SunOS 5.11 30 Jan 2004 script(1)