09-13-2019
Loop Script with wget until exit is typed
Morning all,
I am attempting to complete the below script which will do the following (skip the ping part) using Bash.
Prompts the user to type in a URL to download, or to type exit to exit the script.
If a URL is typed, wget to download the webpage and then loop back to prompting for a typed URL or to type exit.
Basically the script continually loops back to prompting for a webpage after the wget is complete of the previous webpage until the user types exit into the prompt
This is what I have now but I'll explain below other things I've tried
I'm not asking for the answer (of course) just a push towards what I should be thinking about. As you can see, I currently have break at line 17 because, of course, without it, it currently will just continue to wget the URL as it gets stuck in an infinite loop. I am sure the solution is simple but I honestly can not wrap my head around how to get it to complete 1 wget and then go back to the url prompt repeatedly until the user types exit.
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NAME
IO::All::LWP - Extends IO::All to HTTP URLs
SYNOPSIS
use IO::All;
$content < io('http://example.org'); # GET webpage into scalar
io('http://example.org') > io('index.html'); # GET to file
"hello
" > io('http://example.org/index.html'); # PUT webpage
# two ways of getting a page with a password:
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DESCRIPTION
This module extends IO::All for dealing with HTTP URLs. Note that you don't need to use it explicitly, as it is autoloaded by IO::All
whenever it sees something that looks like an HTTP URL.
The SYNOPSIS shows some simple typical examples, but there are many other interesting combinations with other IO::All features! For
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METHODS
This is a subclass of IO::All::LWP. The only new method is "http", which can be used to create a blank IO::All::HTTP object; or it can also
take an HTTP URL as a parameter. Note that in most cases it is simpler just to call io('http://example.com'), which calls the "http" method
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OPERATOR OVERLOADING
The same operators from IO::All may be used. < GETs an HTTP URL; > PUTs to an HTTP URL.
SEE ALSO
IO::All, IO::All::LWP, LWP.
AUTHORS
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2007. Ivan Tubert-Brohman and Brian Ingerson. All rights reserved.
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