Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to use wget to capture a web page on the Internet.
If I use the command from a terminal like:
wget Whidbey Island, Naval Air Station WA Weather -O /tmp/FIL.tmp
it works but if I use it in a bash script the size of /tmp/FIL.tmp is zero.
Can someone help me. Should I not be using wget in a script? Seems like if it works from a terminal it should work from a script. This is Slackware's recent version and the script is root priv.

What type of script? Perl? PHP? KSH? Bash?

Please post the code. Thanks.

From a terminal or a script is just an interface but the base command ' wget ' remains the same. There is no reason for it to refuse working when executed with other set of commands in a string. It will work.

Post us what is there in the script that you have tried.

Sorry, thought wget being bash command was enough but yes it is BASH

Can you try with the full path to wget? Use:

/usr/bin/wget -q <link> -O /tmp/FIL.tmp

OK! think I have the solution.
Here is the script:

Code:

    # User defines this source page location
    SRCLOC=`egrep SRCLOC DATFIL | cut -d" " -f2`  <--- (1)
    echo SRCLOC=$SRCLOC
    SRCLOC=`echo $SRCLOC | cut -d"\"" -f2`  <--- (2)
    echo SRCLOC=$SRCLOC
    SRCLOC=`echo $SRCLOC | cut -d"\"" -f1`  <--- (3)
    echo SRCLOC=$SRCLOC
    # Extract page from internet to /tmp/FIL.tmp
    wget $SRCLOC -O /tmp/FIL.tmp

After you all queried me I trimmed the code and got an unsupported scheme for SRCLOC.
I discovered that my script was inserting double quotes when only line 1 was used.
When manually done:
SRCLOC="whatever the URL is"
of course the double quotes go away.
Adding lines 2 & 3 removed the double quotes and the script runs OK!
Adding /usr/bin would be superfluous as it is in my PATH.
Thanks ALL!