Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts,
Problem statement :
We have an URL for which we need to read the data and get parsed inside the shell scripts.My Aix has very limited perl utility, i cant install any utility as well.
Precisely, wget,cURL,Lynx,w3m and Lwp cant be used as i got these utilities only when i googled it.

And also i found one solution in Unix.com itself in below thread

URL call from SHELL script

Since i dont have enough posts am not able to post the complete link sorry for that
but i have given the later part of the title that is , thread name.
and in that cfajohnson has mentioned about some bash scripting and of that only one link is accessible and other one is not accessible( 1st link).
Please dont think am dusting the old one's am really in need of that script. Please help me .
Even if we have any solution for this, would be greatly appreciated.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Moderator's Comments:

edit by bakunin: link to thread inserted for you.

telnet

However, pretty much just http:, not https: there. How you screen scrape that could be somewhat hard without something like "expect" (though IBM also has a product for this as well).

Without add-ons, AIX (base install) is pretty sad.

Honestly: while i admire ghostdog74 for his ingenuity i wouldn't use his solution in any serious task i have to carry out.

If you need a http-based communication you need a tool to do so. Either you install that yourself, get the system administrator to install it for you or declare your task to be not possible without the necessary tools. It is probably possible to do brain surgery with only a needle and some yarn - i still would recommend not to even try, especially if you have any interest in the subjects further life.

Get wget, cURL or any other CLI-based browser installed.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

@ cjcox,

Thanks for your reply . Yes it is.
Can Lwp- Mechanise be installed on our own without Administration privilege.

I have all the source code copied to the machine and i tried to install with the steps available in CPAN.org. but its failing for pre-requiste.

If you guys could help me in installing the mechanize w/o root privillege, that would be great.

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@ bakunin ,

Thanks for your valuable reply.

I got to know that after 2 days of struggle, so i have the perl installed just want to add few more utility to make it work. Please try to guide me in getting Mechanize installed.

Quite a few things can be installed without administration privileges. All it takes is a willingness to install in ~/bin/ instead of /bin/ and use custom paths.

Am ready to do custom installation as well, please help me in performing it.

To be honest: i never even heard of "mechanize". Why doN't you use wget, which can do all you seem to want to do right out of the box?

If your SysAdmin is just too lazy to install it: report him to your managers for being an obstacle and have him fired (yes, i really mean that). wget can be downloaded either from the IBM site:

IBM AIX toolbox for Linux applications

or Michael Perzls site, all packaged into installable rpm-packages. If it is even good enough for IBM itself it might eventually be good enough for your SysAdmin.

I hope this helps.

bakunin