From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 18 11:25:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18118 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:25:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-22.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18112 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:25:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from searle@longacre.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.156.24] (helo=longacre.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zr5Wj-0002P0-00; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:25:30 +0000 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:51:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Searle Subject: Re: Web Download To: Jon Hamilton cc: cjclark@home.com, FreeBSD Questions , Dan Mahoney In-Reply-To: <199812172104.NAA16487@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: Who, me? X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.46] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 17 Dec, Jon Hamilton wrote: > > In message <19981217125735.B17071@wolf.com>, Dan Mahoney wrote: > } > 1) A quick look at lynx has not revealled to me a quick > } > and dirty way to get it to download it in a script. > } > Anyone familiar enough with lynx to show me how I > } > would do it? > } > } How about "lynx -dump > the.file.name.you.are.grabbing" ? > > Note that if you use lynx, it will try to format the source file, > which is probably not what you want (given your original scenario). > I meant to mention this in my earlier reply, but neglected to do so. > "lynx -source > the.file.name.you.are.grabbing" will grab the file directly without formatting it. -- csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message