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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read URL data from UNIX-CLI without Wget,CURL,w3m,LWP Post 302860843 by bakunin on Monday 7th of October 2013 10:52:48 AM
Old 10-07-2013
Honestly: while i admire ghostdog74 for his ingenuity i wouldn't use his solution in any serious task i have to carry out.

If you need a http-based communication you need a tool to do so. Either you install that yourself, get the system administrator to install it for you or declare your task to be not possible without the necessary tools. It is probably possible to do brain surgery with only a needle and some yarn - i still would recommend not to even try, especially if you have any interest in the subjects further life.

Get wget, cURL or any other CLI-based browser installed.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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TASKSEL(8)						      Debian specific manpage							TASKSEL(8)

NAME

       tasksel - a user interface for installing tasks

SYNOPSIS

       tasksel install <task>

       tasksel remove <task>

       tasksel [options]

DESCRIPTION

       tasksel shows all available tasks and allows to user to select ones to install

OPTIONS

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SEE ALSO

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FILES

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AUTHOR

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2.88ubuntu8							    2010-07-16								TASKSEL(8)
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