Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

I am referring to this website . What I'm trying to do is to have a server script which will receive data from GPS in one line and store it in some file. Now from what I can see in this server file, server is sending the data to client but I don't need that .. I need only server script to receive data and pass it to some txt file or whatever, but also need to keep that file alive if multiple lines get sent to server. Any hints ? Opinions, I'm willing to consider any opinion, I've made this work on windows with visual basic but I really want to setup linux or bsd server to handle this kind of operation.

Thank you,
C

Did you read that website? The server described there is written in C, not a shell script, since shells usually can't do socket operations (bash can do them, but that's more of an exception than anything AFAIK)
How exactly will the data be transfered from the GPS device to the computer? Is the connection initiated by the device or the computer? Is any conversion of the data necessary? Is the connection IP based (Ethernet/WiFi/Firewire) or something like USB or RS232?

pludi:

The GPS device establishes a connection to my server by connecting to its IP and PORT and then send data in one line. I do not need to decode the data, all I need is to save it in a file.

Scroll down in Beej's guide, to the simple stream client & take a look at how it receives from the server. Basically, all you need to do is change the servers send() to the appropriate recv() call & write the line to an open file descriptor.