[TriLUG] wget, curl ???

[James Jones]

Chess,

That's it!

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$ lynx -dump http://www.example.com > log.txt

or if you know what types of files you want listed

$ lynx -dump http://www.example.com | grep ogg > log.txt

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Although I used links instead of lynx with the results I wanted

Thanks very much.

jcj

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com> wrote:
> James Jones wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I want to capture a list of files on a website. I don't want to
>> download the files. I thought at first that wget would be the best for
>> this, but it appears that it will download the files.
>>
>> What would be the simplest way to achieve my goal?
>>
>> jcj
>
> A list of the files or a list of the links?  If the latter, check out lynx,
> w3m, or one of the other text browsers.  Maybe something like this would
> work:
>
> $ lynx -dump http://www.example.com > log.txt
>
> or if you know what types of files you want listed
>
> $ lynx -dump http://www.example.com | grep ogg > log.txt
>
> You can probably fine-tune the grep to eliminate the junk and capture just
> what you want.
>
> There are probably much better ways to this, but lynx was the first thing
> that came to mind.
>
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