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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash too many arguments error Post 302484658 by killer54291 on Sunday 2nd of January 2011 12:40:24 PM
Old 01-02-2011
Scrutinizer, Well until this works, .previouscm.txt is just a text file with random letters and numbers. Once this script works, I will add a few lines at the bottom writing all of the current url's to the text file, so if the URL appears in the text file it will do nothing.
When I grep it, nothing is returned, as shown in bash debug:
Code:
'[' http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/audiophiles.png '!=' '' ']' 98109 '[' http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/audiophiles.png '!=' '' ']'

I also tried the double quotes, didn't help.

Corona688, The Dilbert URL is 113 character, http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000...rip.sunday.gif, and that is too large?
If so, I should change the code to output each url to separate files and have the old urls in separate files and diff them?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

mainline

MAINLINE(1)						      General Commands Manual						       MAINLINE(1)

NAME

       mainline - command line interface to Dosage

SYNOPSIS

       mainline [options] module [module...]

DESCRIPTION

       mainline  is  a	command  line interface to Dosage. Dosage is a an application designed to keep a local 'mirror' of specific web comics and
       other picture-based content, such as 'Picture Of The Day' sites, with a variety of options for updating and maintaining collections.

OPTIONS

       -b PATH, --base--path=PATH
	      Specifies a base path to put comic subdirectories. The default is 'Comics'.

       --base-url=PATH
	      Specifies the base URL for output events. The default is a local file URI.

       -c, --catch-up
	      Traverses all available strips until an (identical) existing one is found.  This can be useful if your collection was previously	up
	      to  date,  but you've missed a few days worth of strips. Alternatively you can specify -c twice for a 'full catchup', which will not
	      stop until all comics have been traversed. Catchups can 'resumed' by using the index syntax, see the INDEX SYNTAX and SPECIAL SYNTAX
	      sections for more information.

       -h, --help
	      Output brief help information.

       -l, --list
	      List available comic modules in multi-column fashion.

       --single-list
	      List available comic modules in single-column fashion.

       -m MODULE, --module-help=MODULE
	      Output module-specific help for MODULE.

       -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
	      OUTPUT may be any one of the following:

	      text - Provides no additional output and is the default value.

	      html  -  Writes  out an HTML file linking to the strips actually downloaded in the current run, named by date (ala dailystrips). The
	      files can be found in the 'html' directory of your Comics directory.

	      rss - Writes out an RSS feed detailing what strips were downloaded in the last 24 hours. The feed  can  be  found  in  Comics/daily-
	      dose.xml.

	      rss - Writes an RSS feed with all of the strips downloaded during the run, for use with your favourite RSS aggregator.

       -p, --progress
	      Display a progress bar while downloading comics.

       -q, --quiet
	      Decrease the output level by one with each occurence.

       -t, --timestamps
	      Print timestamps for all output at any level.

       -v, --verbose
	      Increase the output level by one with each occurence.

       -V, --version
	      Display the version number.  module At least one valid module must be specified. A list of valid modules can be found by passing the
	      -l option. Multiple module arguments can be specified on the command line.

INDEX SYNTAX

       One can indicate the start of a list of comma seperated indices using a ':'.

       If -c is specified with index syntax then 'resume' mode is activated, where a 'catchup' will start at the given index.

       Refer to EXAMPLES for samples.

OFFENSIVE COMICS

       Some users may find certain comics offensive and wish to disable them.  Modules listed in /etc/dosage/disabled and ~/.dosage/disabled  will
       be disabled. These files should contain only one module name per line.

SPECIAL SYNTAX

       @      This expands to mean all the comics currently in your 'Comics' directory.

       @@     This expands to mean all the comics available to Dosage.

       INDEX SYNTAX can be used with SPECIAL SYNTAX but this is unlikely to be useful.

EXAMPLES

       Retrieve the latest Mega Tokyo comic:
	      mainline MegaTokyo

       Retrieve every strip from every comic that there is a module for:
	      mainline -c @@

       Retrieve all Penny Arcade strips from (and including) a given index to the beginning regardless of whether they already exist or not:
	      mainline -c PennyArcade:2004-07-22

ENVIRONMENT

       HTTP_PROXY
	      mainline will use the specified HTTP proxy whenever possible.

NOTES

       Should  retrieval fail on any given strip mainline will attempt to retry. However the retry information is only outputted in the second and
       successive output levels.

       At the time of writing, a complete Dosage collection weighs in at around 3.0GB.

BUGS

       See http://trac.slipgate.za.net/dosage for a list of current development tasks and suggestions.

FILES

       /etc/dosage/disabled
	      Disables comic modules on a global scale.

       ~/.dosage/disabled
	      Disables comic modules on a local scale.

AUTHORS

       mainline and Dosage were written by Jonathan Jacobs <korpse@slipgate.za.net> and Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@slipgate.za.net>. This manual
       page was written by Jonathan Jacobs.

																       MAINLINE(1)
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