export -f is a bash feature and I use it here to insure the internal function fetch_url is exported to sub shells. This is needed as xargs is an external command to the shell and runs the assembled commands in a new shells.
I assumed, as you were using GNU xargs (-P feature is a GNU extension), that you were also using the bash shell. I've updated my original post to specify the required shell, and this is all you may need to do to get you version working.
However, if you do not wish to use bash, you could put your function in an external script so that it can be called from xargs for example:
$HOME/bin/fetch_url:
And from another script (or the command line) you can call this with:
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Basically I am needing to Download (using curl) in the background some data from(link here), with stderr redirected to /dev/null, to a file named taxcode
I was doing this,
curl & http:// name here/download/pls/Title_26.txt 2> /dev/null > taxcode
but the results were not what I was after.
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Hi
I'm trying to download an xml file from a https server using curl on a Linux machine with Ubuntu 10.4.2
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Hello all,
I have been struggling with this issue on and off for a couple of weeks now and I just got it all working, so I wanted to share my findings in case some other poor soul needs to know how. First some background on what I'm doing. I am uploading files to different directories based on... (0 Replies)
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Good Morning.
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Hello,
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In terminal, I am able to download my mainfile with:
curl -u user1:pass1 http://11.22.33.44/*******
When I convert it into bash script like this:
#!/bin/bash
cd /root/scripts
computer_ip=11.22.33.44
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surfraw-update-path
SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)NAME
surfraw-update-path - updates PATH in shell config files
SYNOPSIS
surfraw-update-path [-add] [-remove] [-check] [-sys] [-all] [-help] [-shell=SHELL]
DESCRIPTION
surfraw-update-path adds the surfraw elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your PATH in your shell's config file.
Currently it supports bash, sh, csh, tcsh, ash, dash, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es
Don't forget to login again or source your login files for it to take effect.
OPTIONS -check
Checks to see if the surfraw config code is present. This is the default.
-add
Adds the surfraw config code.
-remove
Removes the surfraw config code
-sys
Updates the system-wide shell config instead of the user. Must be done as root.
-shell=SHELL
Selects the shell to configure. Defaults to the value of the $SHELL environment variable.
Currently supported shells are:
sh, ash, bash, dash, csh, tcsh, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es.
-all
Attempts to configure the startup files for all known shells
-help
Gives a usage message
RETURN VALUE -check returns 0 if the surfraw code is present in the file, 1 if it is not found, or 2 on error.
All other options return 0 on success, or 2 on error.
ENVIRONMENT
SHELL
Used to determine which shell to configure, if -shell is not given.
HOME
Used to find users config files.
ENV Used by posix-compliant shells to specify a startup rc file.
ZDOTDIR
Used to find user config files for zsh. If not set, defaults to HOME.
SEE ALSO surfraw(1), sh(1), ash(1), bash(1), dash(1), csh(1), tcsh(1), ksh(1), pdksh(1), zsh(1), rc(1), es(1)AUTHOR
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net>
perl v5.12.4 2011-07-12 SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)