How about just letting it print instead of continually cramming everything into backticks? You don't have to always have to do that.
Also, how about checking their return codes instead of grepping their output? Every process you create returns an error code for success or failure, and wget is not an exception. If it fails to download a page, it willl tell you so directly. There's no need to grep for 'error' in the output.
If you're downloading multiple pages and wish to see which succeeded via script, wget has the -nv option, which outputs success or failure for individual files in a simple line-by-line list.
The real problem is, they're not one thing, they're two streams. stdout is used for data, stderr is used for errors.
If you want them both to go to stdout: wget ... 2>&1
thank you for the response.
the task i often have to deal with is, some clients request that a specific URL be curled/wgetted and in the output returned, they want to make sure that there is a certain string(s) contained in it.
so in the previous wget example i gave (its just an example), some clients may want to make sure the words "HTTP request sent, awaiting response" is found in the output. in such a case, just checking for the exit code is not good enough. it helps if, when the check alerts, it also contains the full error message.
lets say the exit code is a non-zero. it would help tremendously to actually be able to see what the failure was.
for instance, after running a wget on a URL, the following was returned:
Now, this isn't the typical response. So when the URL check was run and got back this error response, it would help if I can actually show the entire message to the output of the GUI. its very difficult putting this response in a variable and outputting it out the way it alerted.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
cddb-tool
CDDB-TOOL(1) General Commands Manual CDDB-TOOL(1)NAME
cddb-tool - Get CDDB information
SYNOPSIS
cddb-tool parse file [-i|-d|-a|-t] [num|-c|-p]
cddb-tool template disc-id tracks
cddb-tool send [file] address
cddb-tool query server user host disc-id tracks
cddb-tool read server user host disc-id genre
cddb-tool help
DESCRIPTION
cddb-tool is a backend tool for abcde. It is passed information from cd-discid and uses it look up the CD title, artist, and track informa-
tion on the cddb database (http://freedb.freedb.org) on the internet.
COMMANDS
parse [file] option
Get data out of a cddb file (use "-" for stdin). Options (use one and only one):
id prints disc id
album prints album title
track num
prints title of track num
artist prints artist
category
prints category
cddbgenre
synonym for category
all parse file and dumps to stdout in a form sourceable by the shell
send [file] address
Mails file file (or stdin of no file specified) to specified address, using correct format. Category should be one of blues, classical,
country, data, folk, jazz, newage, reggae, rock, soundtrack, misc.
template [disc-id] [tracks]
Generates a template (empty) cddb file to stdout. The command line should be essentially the output of cd-discid.
query [server] [user] [host] [disc-id] [tracks]
Looks up disc on server (should be of form "http://host/cddb/cddb.cgi") remainder of command line is in the same form as that returned by
the cd-discid program. Uses wget, so if you need to use a proxy then just configure wget to do so. user and host will be used for identify-
ing ourselves to the CDDB server. Outputs response code and entries with matching CDDB entries, if successful, from the CDDB server.
read [server] [user] [host] [disc-id] [genre]
Dumps CDDB entry to stdout. File will contain an extra #CATEGORY= line, which leaves it a valid CDDB file but which will be recognized by
parse and send commands. Uses wget, so if you need to use a proxy then just configure wget to do so. user and host will be used for identi-
fying ourselves to the CDDB server.
help
Prints usage information.
AUTHOR
Nathaniel Smith <njs@uclink4.berkeley.edu>, maintained as part of abcde by Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>. Manual page compiled from help
information by Robert Woodcock.
CDDB-TOOL(1)