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Old 09-15-2009
How to open an url and grep for a word
Hi All,

I am new to shell scripting,Could any of you help me on this below Smilie
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I need to write a shell script where i have open an url and grep for a particular word in the url and want to display it in a flatfile.
Eg: Want to open yahoo.com and grep for yahoo groups and diplay that yahoogroup sentnce in a file called result
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Regards,
Suma.
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Old 09-15-2009
Just to put you on some track, try this:

Code:
$ wget -qO - yahoo.com | grep -i 'yahoo'

But if you need to display the page without the html tags or other javascript goodies, you will need tools like lynx.
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