Shell Programming and Scripting

HI Pludi,

So you wanna me to print each page manually??? No other way to have a script to make a local copy of entire pages as a single document???

Sorry, didn't see that RH went with putting each section on a page of it's own. But by clicking around I found a link here that points to a PDF of it.

Ok, Tats fine pludi. Consider some sites which doesn't provide PDF's so wat shall we do with those scenarios???

I can't think of an easy way to do this, since HTML doesn't have any definite way of telling when the actual content of a file starts and where it ends. The RH pages, for example, include multiple links at the top and the bottom, which might be easy to filter out here, but this might break on another page.

The hard way would be to use a parser, deparse the HTML, filter out anything above or below certain elements (which have to be unique), and write it out again. But this, again, will fail as soon as the beginning and the end aren't unique, or if the page itself isn't HTML but XML with XSLT.

In short: if you encounter such a site, it's always possible that there's a printable version on the site itself, or that the author might have one.