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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem in using cut command with pipe as a delimiter while using in a script Post 302998599 by Don Cragun on Sunday 4th of June 2017 04:32:09 PM
Old 06-04-2017
I apologize for my earlier post (which has now been deleted). I thought I had posted the following in an earlier post. Since I hadn't, I'll ask the question now.

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

httppower

httppower(8)							     powerman							      httppower(8)

NAME

       httppower - communicate with HTTP based power distribution units

SYNOPSIS

       httppower [--url URL]

DESCRIPTION

       httppower  is  a  helper program for powerman which enables it to communicate with HTTP based power distribution units.	It is run interac-
       tively by the powerman daemon.

OPTIONS

       -u, --url URL
	      Set the base URL.

INTERACTIVE COMMANDS

       The following commands are accepted at the httppower> prompt:

       auth user:pass
	      Authenticate to the base URL with specified user and password, using ``basic'' HTTP authentication which sends the user and password
	      over the network in plain text.

       seturl URL
	      Set the base URL.  Overrides the command line option.

       get [URL-suffix]
	      Send an HTTP GET to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended.

       post [URL-suffix] key=val[&key=val]...
	      Send an HTTP POST to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended, and key-value pairs as argument.

FILES

       /usr/sbin/httppower
       /etc/powerman/powerman.conf

ORIGIN

       PowerMan was originally developed by Andrew Uselton on LLNL's Linux clusters.  This software is open source and distributed under the terms
       of the GNU GPL.

SEE ALSO

       powerman(1), powermand(8), httppower(8), plmpower(8), vpcd(8), powerman.conf(5), powerman.dev(5), powerman-devices(7).

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerman

powerman-2.3.5							    2009-02-09							      httppower(8)
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