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Old 08-28-2008
web browsing from shell
hi mates Im new at this forums so hello Smilie I was wondering if it is possible to enter a web page from the shell and maybe retrieving some info from it

tnx in advance
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Old 08-28-2008
You can download web page content using wget or lynx or links. The latter two can be used as text mode browsers.
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Old 08-28-2008
tnx Annihilannic Ill try those...what I want is some kind of daemon that goes and bring some info from website are those capable of doing that?
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Old 08-28-2008
You can try:

wget -q -O - <url> | grep "..."
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