Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Bash script idea using cUrl -- possible?
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash script idea using cUrl -- possible? Post 302399260 by SilversleevesX on Saturday 27th of February 2010 01:54:20 PM
Old 02-27-2010
No problem, fubaya
I guessed that you folks would want some "code o' my own," so I wrote some.
Did some double-checking on the rules of parameter extraction -- last time I did anything of the kind was in AppleScript three or four years ago.

So here's my script as it stands now. The echos about a correctly-formatted web address are the ones I intend to replace with the cUrl commands.
Code:
#!/bin/bash

function whatchagot() {

echo -ne "Where is the file coming from?\n"
read stringZ
dimple=$(echo ${stringZ:0:5})
if [ $dimple != "http:" ]
then
	echo -ne "That was not a web address.\n"
	echo -ne "I can't fill in your blanks like a web browser can, you know!\n"
else
	echo -ne "Very good.\n"
	echo -ne "You know what a web address is!\n"
fi
}

echo -ne "What is your file to be called?\n"
read theName
if [ $theName != "done" ]
then
	whatchagot
else
	echo -ne "Alright. I quit!\n"
fi

I'm taking this one step at a time. I have the function ready, allowing for some substitution of commands. Thanks for the "while true" hint. I'll add your && echo "$NAME" "$LINK" > file.log code later on.

BZT

---------- Post updated 27th Feb 2010 at 13:54 ---------- Previous update was 26th Feb 2010 at 22:42 ----------

Still a little wary of applying the "while true" loop, I made some modifications to the script as last posted, dressing up the output to the log file and making sure that the exit commands were working.
Code:
#!/bin/bash


function whatchagot() {

thisFile=$theName
echo -ne "Where is the file?\n"
read thisSource
dimple=$(echo ${thisSource:0:5})
if [ $dimple != "http:" ]
then
	echo -ne "I'm exiting.\n"
else

But by avoiding the "while true" loop to this point, I may have hung myself by my own petard, as now, predictably, every time the script is run it creates a new log file with a new date & time as part of the name.
Code:
logtime=$(date "+%d.%m.%Y-%H.%M")
logname="curlactivity-$logtime.log"
touch $logname

echo -ne "What is your file to be called?\n"
read theName
if [ $theName != "done" ]
then
	whatchagot
else
	echo -ne "Alright. I quit!\n"
fi

I like the kind of output I'm getting, nicely formatted etc.:
Code:
27.02.2010 @ 13:37:54: tuxubuntu-cute.jpg came from http://www.cogite.info/wallpaper/ and was called Christmas_Tux_Ubuntu_1440-900.jpg

But it looks like I'll have to "dive into the while pool" to make these into real log files instead of "results" redirects with a single string of output to them. Which is not what I meant for them to be.

Would anyone advise abandoning the function part and just bulldozing through, beginning to end, with what I have now? Does that tend to work better when while loops are applied to scripts like this? Or am I asking two incompatible questions?

BZT

My complete script as of this post time:
Code:
#!/bin/bash


function whatchagot() {

thisFile=$theName
echo -ne "Where is the file?\n"
read thisSource
dimple=$(echo ${thisSource:0:5})
if [ $dimple != "http:" ]
then
	echo -ne "I'm exiting.\n"
else
	GRABTIME=$(date "+%d.%m.%Y @ %H:%M:%S")
	thisPlace=`echo $thisSource | rev | cut -d / -f2- | rev`
	thisName=`echo ${thisSource##*/}`
	curl -o "$thisFile" "$thisSource" && echo -ne "$GRABTIME": "$thisFile" came from "$thisPlace/" and was called "$thisName\n">> $logname
fi
}

logtime=$(date "+%d.%m.%Y-%H.%M")
logname="curlactivity-$logtime.log"
touch $logname

echo -ne "What is your file to be called?\n"
read theName
if [ $theName != "done" ]
then
	whatchagot
else
	echo -ne "Alright. I quit!\n"
fi

Last edited by SilversleevesX; 02-26-2010 at 11:46 PM.. Reason: Didn't fully read the reply I was replying to.
 

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Limitations of awk? Good idea? Bad idea?

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)
Discussion started by: yongho
2 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Idea for an "informative" bash alias or script

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)
Discussion started by: SilversleevesX
5 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

bash curl escape & in url

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)
Discussion started by: unclecameron
4 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Sending awk variables into curl in a bash script

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)
Discussion started by: phaethon
6 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Curl won't complete in a script but does from prompt. Idea?

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)
Discussion started by: GSalisbury
5 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Curl/http 503 error with bash script

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)
Discussion started by: kieranfoley
7 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Using curl in bash script

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)
Discussion started by: jcdole
2 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Access a complete flow with CURL + bash shell

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)
Discussion started by: radha254
1 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Curl , download file with user:pass in bash script

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)
Discussion started by: baris35
8 Replies
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 06:57 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy