On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 7:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Leslie Rhorer: > > On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 4:00:04 AM UTC-5, Reco wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone have any ideas how I could get curl to handle the task, > > > > since wget is failing? Some other utility? > > > > > > Don't depend on curl. Use good old socat combined with wget: > > > > Why? The -L option in curl did the trick. Is there some over-riding > > reason why I should use wget instead of curl? Curl windsup being simpler > > and faster in this case. > > I'm not commenting on this particular case, but the default options in > curl are a pain in the proverbial.
I was asking about this case. > As I mentioned 8 April, curl outputs to stdout so you've got to set > -O to get the "correct" filename. Since it's easier in this case *NOT* to have the output sent to a file (or worse, a directory structure), curl is easier. > Then you need -R to get the correct timestamp applied. I don't care about the timestamp. All I need to do is scrape the room temperatures (a total of 20 bytes) from the entire output of several KB. > You also need to check for the existence of a file of the same name > else curl will silently overwrite it. I haven't figured out an alias > to prevent this. Since I *want* the file overwritten every time the script runs, this isn't a problem. Indeed, it is preferred. That, plus I don't have curl write to the file directly. I pipe the result to grep and then sed, and then redirect that output to the file. One line with curl. It was over a dozen with wget. > wget handles these cases correctly. curl might be fine for scripting > but I find wget far friendlier for interactive use. The first four words in my original post were "I had a script...". 'Not that I mind the extraneous information concerning the broader merits of wget vs curl, but I am trying to solve a specific problem here, after all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ca4e92b6-7e4a-4aae-9d88-1be3e4994...@googlegroups.com
