Shell Programming and Scripting

Hard luck my friend not installed.

@sk1418:
The problem is pages with active content won't get downloaded as you'd want to. E.g.

Code:

curl www.unix.com | grep Copyright

returns 3 lines, whereas

Code:

wget www.unix.com -O - | grep Copyright

returns none due to some active contents...

Well since you don't have curl AND wget.. do you have python installed?

save this into a .py file, e.g t.py

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib
print urllib.urlopen("https://www.unix.com").read()

then you could do something like this:

Code:

kent$ python t.py| grep -c "Copyright"       
3

@mirni

Code:

wget www.unix.com -O - | grep Copyright

works here. I can see 3 red "Copyright" I 've alias grep with color.

Hi Guys,

I do not have wget or lynx installed and pyton doesn't seems to work. Is there ne way to write a shell script.?

Your response is appreciated.

This is why it's always helpful to know what your system is. Doesn't seem to work? What, exactly, does it do? It's "python", by the way, check your spelling in the script too. No netspeak, please.

Some versions of ksh allow you to create a network socket but this would be a very hackish and breakage-prone way to do it. You should try and get the right tool for the job.

What is your system, anyway? Did you try curl?

Some shellssupport sockets.
With some versions of bash you could write something like this:

Code:

exec 3<>/dev/tcp/www.unix.com/80
printf 'GET / HTTP/1.1\nHost: www.unix.com\nConnection: close\n\n' >&3
grep <&3 Copyright
exec 3>&-

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I agree, I would use Perl.

The OP seems to be using AIX.

i don't have experience of AIX. but python is not a standard package of AIX?
btw, @bankimmehta, if you say "python doesn't seem to work", what is the output then?