executing a Curl command using a script

[jeffrey_seeNJ]

Wonderin if any1 noe hw 2 execute curl command using a script ???


The command i have here is


news= " www.yahoo.com.sg"

echo curl news | grep "something" | head "something > data.txt


but i encounter error like unbound variable


Can any1 help me Desperately need help =D

[RobinVossen]

First of all. can you please try to not use things like any1 or noe.
Some people here might have trouble reading that.
And to answer your question:

#!/bin/bash
news= "www.yahoo.com.sg"
$grepwhat="something"
echo curl $news | grep $grepwhat | head $grepwhat > data

But Id put it in the commands so you wont have to chance to script everytime you run it for something like this:

#!/bin/bash
echo curl $1 | grep $2 | head $2 > $3

Here is the first argv you give the address you want to curl.
the second what you want to grep
and the thirt what file it has to be put in.

Hope that helped.

[jeffrey_seeNJ]

Thx but what does this mean ?

$grepwhat="something"

First of all. can you please try to not use things like any1 or noe.
Some people here might have trouble reading that.
And to answer your question:

#!/bin/bash
news= "www.yahoo.com.sg"
$grepwhat="something"
echo curl $news | grep $grepwhat | head $grepwhat > data

But Id put it in the commands so you wont have to chance to script everytime you run it for something like this:

#!/bin/bash
echo curl $1 | grep $2 | head $2 > $3

Here is the first argv you give the address you want to curl.
the second what you want to grep
and the thirt what file it has to be put in.

Hope that helped.

[RobinVossen]

Its the value you want to grep for.

[jeffrey_seeNJ]

Let say i wanna grep the word help from this txtfile, hw am i gonna do it ???$

$grephelp = "anything i wan" ?

Its the value you want to grep for.

[RobinVossen]

Yea, you are correct.

[Franklin52]

First of all. can you please try to not use things like any1 or noe.
Some people here might have trouble reading that.
And to answer your question:

#!/bin/bash
news= "www.yahoo.com.sg"
$grepwhat="something"
echo curl $news | grep $grepwhat | head $grepwhat > data

But Id put it in the commands so you wont have to chance to script everytime you run it for something like this:

#!/bin/bash
echo curl $1 | grep $2 | head $2 > $3

Here is the first argv you give the address you want to curl.
the second what you want to grep
and the thirt what file it has to be put in.

Hope that helped.

1. This line isn't correct:

$grepwhat="something"

It should be:

grepwhat="something"

2. The head command has a numeric option and displays the first -n lines of a file. Read the man page of head.


Regards

[RobinVossen]

heh, whoops sorry.
I was at work looking at a terminal that was compiling.
Sorry.

[jeffrey_seeNJ]

oh.. thx guys

[jeffrey_seeNJ]

#!/bin/bash
#code.h

shopt -s -o nounset

news=" Channelnewsasia.com - Singapore News "

grep header ="haha"

echo curl $news | grep $header | head -3 | sed 's/<[^<>]*>//g' |tail -1 > $data



exit




Need help guys, this is the code im doing on, but after doing the steps given by u guys, i cant the answer i want...how come?

heh, whoops sorry.
I was at work looking at a terminal that was compiling.
Sorry.