Automate Script

[allensim81]

Hi, I am totally new in learning to write an Unix script.
I want to automate the WebHTTrack downloading website process. I had tried to write a simple script and it runs! But i didnt use any variables, the website URL and directory is fixed.

Can anyone guides me step-by-step so that i can automate the webHTTrack and make it to download 20-30 websites?

Following is the simple script that i tried to write:
#!/bin/sh
# purpose: automate webHTTtack downloading process

httrack -q -%i -w http://www.www.calpoly.edu-O /data/websites/Calpoly -n -%P -N0 -s2 -p7 -D -a -K0 -c4 -%k -r1 -%e1 -A25000
echo "download completed"

Appreciate your help & guidiance.
Love

[tpl]

well, if all yr websites are of the form
"http://www.something" then if you had a list
"websites" of the somethings, you could try it like
this:

#!/bin/sh
#purpose: automate webHTTtack downloading process
#7 july 2009
#
for i in `cat websites`
do
mkdir /data/websites/$i
httrack -q -%i -w http://www.$i /data/websites/$i -n -%P -N0 -s2 -p7 -D -a -K0 -c4 -%k -r1 -%e1 -A25000
done
echo "download completed"

the directory names would be more complex than in yr
example: but perhaps you could introduce another
variable "j=cut -d. -f1 $i" removing the ".edu" part