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I am using the following to capture a page from a website. I then use shell scripting to extract the information I want from it. wget works great for this ...
- 01-13-2010 #1Linux User
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Getting empty output from wget
I am using the following to capture a page from a website. I then use shell scripting to extract the information I want from it. wget works great for this if I type the command from the command line. If I use it in a script the file barFILE.txt is empty.
wget $SRCLOC -O /tmp/barFIL.tmp
The content of SRCLOC is the same whether from command line or shell script. I presume that one must tell wget where to send the captured web page.
Any ideas??
- 01-13-2010 #2Linux Guru
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Well, in your text, the file name is barFILE.txt, yet in your example it it barFIL.tmp. Is it possible you are trying to read barFILE.txt but have written the data to barFILE.tmp?
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- 01-14-2010 #3Linux User
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Getting empty output from wget
Thanks for catching my typo. It should be barFIL.tmp in both cases (note that E should be omitted in the name) --ugH!! my excuse is overworked and tired.
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