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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can't set parameter to lynx properly Post 302998087 by migurus on Wednesday 24th of May 2017 11:47:32 PM
Old 05-25-2017
Can't set parameter to lynx properly
My intention is to go through list of addresses and call google geocode api for each of them. I am using lynx for this, but somehow I can't supply the parameters to it in a proper way.

To show that my parameters are OK I just hardcoded one address in my script and put it in my input file, and the hardcoded call runs just fine:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
rqst1='http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?&address='
rqst2=' CA, USA&sensor=false'
INPF=${1:-addr_list}
while read addr; do
set -x
        lynx -dump "'""$rqst1""$addr""$rqst2""'"
        lynx -dump 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?&address=10925 RAILROAD ST&sensor=false'
done < $INPF

 $ cat addr_list
 10925 RAILROAD ST

I set -x to show how my parameters look and I don't see any fault on my side, yet lynx is not happy, here is the results:
Code:
 + lynx -dump 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?&address=10925 RAILROAD ST CA, USA&sensor=false'
 Alert!: Unsupported URL scheme!
 lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
      Exiting...
+ lynx -dump http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/...&address=10925 RAILROAD ST&sensor=false
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GeocodeResponse>
 <status>OK</status>
 <result>
 ... etc...

Please point me into right direction here.
 

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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

hman

hman(1)                                                       General Commands Manual                                                      hman(1)

NAME

       hman - browse the on-line manual pages

SYNOPSIS

       hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] name
       hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] [ index ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  hman  script is an interface to man2html(1) that allows you to enter man page requests at the command line and view the output in your
       favourite browser.  The behaviour reminds of that of man(1) so that many people will be able to alias hman to man.  If the browser used  is
       netscape, and an incarnation of netscape is running already, hman will pass the request to the existing browser.

OPTIONS

       -P  browser
              Specify  which  browser  (like  lynx, xmosaic, arena, chimera, netscape, amaya, ...) to use.  This option overrides the MANHTMLPAGER
              environment variable.  The default is the non-httpd version of lynx, or sensible-browser if lynx cannot be found.

       -H  host
              Specify from what host to get the man pages.  This option overrides the MANHTMLHOST environment variable.  The default is localhost.

ENVIRONMENT

       MANHTMLPAGER
              The default browser to use is selected using this environment variable.

       MANHTMLHOST
              The default host to use is selected using this environment variable.

SEE ALSO

       man(1), man2html(1), arena(1), lynx(1), sensible-browser(1), netscape(1), xmosaic(1), glimpse(1)

       http://www.mcom.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html

                                                                  19 January 1998                                                          hman(1)
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