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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers input URL into cmd with a alias Post 302521466 by kalak on Wednesday 11th of May 2011 09:27:59 AM
Old 05-11-2011
which shell are you using?

Also, you can make a script that will handle this:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
wget "$1" -SO /dev/null 2>&1 | grep "HTTP/\\|Age:\\|Last-Modified:"

then run: script.sh URL
 

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YAZ-URL(1)							     Commands								YAZ-URL(1)

NAME

       yaz-url - YAZ URL fetch utility

SYNOPSIS

       yaz-url [-H name:value] [-m method] [-O fname] [-p fname] [-u user/password] [-x proxy] [url...]

DESCRIPTION

       yaz-url is utility to get web content. It is very limited in functionality compared to programs such as curl, wget.

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       Fetched HTTP content is written to stdout, unless option -O is given.

OPTIONS

       -H name:value
	   Specifies HTTP header content with name and value. This option can be given multiple times (for different names, of course).

       -m method
	   Specifies the HTTP method to be used for the next URL. Default is method "GET". However, option -p sets it to "POST".

       -O fname
	   Sets output filename for HTTP content.

       -p fname
	   Sets a file to be POSTed in the folloing URL.

       -u user/password
	   Specifies a user and a password to be uesd in HTTP basic authentication in the following URL fetch. The user and password must be
	   separated by a slash (this it is not possible to specify a user with a slash in it).

       -x proxy
	   Specifies a proxy to be used for URL fetch.

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