Shell script to open browser and get response back
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From: srikanth on 8 Jun 2010 05:33 On Jun 7, 9:11 pm, Bit Twister <BitTwis...(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:37:03 -0700 (PDT), srikanth wrote: > > How can i implement this script into my script? sorry for asking these > > type of questions as i am poor at coding. > > Just an FYI. Chris's script is executed as a child/sub-process. > > Downside to that is your main code can hang reading a site and Chris's > spinner will still be spinning away. > > My script was using a for loop to emulate your loop of reading sites. > My ls > /dev/null was a replacement of your fetching/processing web > site contents and allow you to see the spinner/wheel actually spinning. Also I have one more question here... If i use xdg-open http://google.com it was opening in a browser (user set default browser) if i use xdg-open instead of HEAD in my script it is opening browser with specified URL. I need to close opened browser/tab in order to open another URL by the script. How can i solve this problem Here is my script #!/bin/bash if [ -z "$1" ] then printf "Provide the text file location to process.\n" exit 0 fi { for i in `cat $1` do echo "`xdg-open $i`" done } exit 0 Create a text file which contains some group of URLs and provide the location.
From: Bit Twister on 8 Jun 2010 09:14 On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 02:14:28 -0700 (PDT), srikanth wrote: <big snip> > It is showing only > Browsing URLs.........\ Yes, my code without the "for i in {1..100} ; do" loop was to go inside your "for j in `cat $1`" loop. > can you please fix my problem. The progress indicator problem, yes. I made it into a function so your code would be easier to read. #!/bin/bash if [ -z "$1" ] then printf "Provide the text file location to process.\n" exit 0 fi _wheel="|/-\\" _c=0 _counter=0 function show_progress { printf "\b%s" ${_wheel:$_c:1} let _c="_c + 1" if [ $_c -gt 3 ] ; then _c=0 fi let _counter="_counter + 1" if [ $_counter -gt 10 ] ; then _counter=0 printf "\b.|" fi } # end function show_progress #********************************* #* main code starts here #********************************* printf "Browsing URLs." { for j in `cat $1` do echo "$j - `HEAD -d $j`" show_progress done } > "/tmp/output.text" 2>&1 printf "\n" #**************** end of script *************************
From: Bit Twister on 8 Jun 2010 09:34 On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 02:14:28 -0700 (PDT), srikanth wrote: > > It is showing only > Browsing URLs.........\ Heheh, without nothing being processed, it spun the wheel so fast you never noticed much. > My input text file contains 600+ urls. Does the progress bar will show > until the script process all of my URLs? Well, yes an no. You have redirected all output from your loop into /tmp/output.text. Even with my change, progress indicator goes into /tmp/output.text and no progress is shown on screen. Suggestion with some readability changes: printf "Browsing URLs." for j in $(cat $1) do echo "$j - $(HEAD -d $j)" > /tmp/output.text 2>&1 show_progress done
From: srikanth on 8 Jun 2010 10:39 On Jun 8, 2:33 pm, srikanth <srikanth0...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 7, 9:11 pm, Bit Twister <BitTwis...(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:37:03 -0700 (PDT), srikanth wrote: > > > How can i implement this script into my script? sorry for asking these > > > type of questions as i am poor at coding. > > > Just an FYI. Chris's script is executed as a child/sub-process. > > > Downside to that is your main code can hang reading a site and Chris's > > spinner will still be spinning away. > > > My script was using a for loop to emulate your loop of reading sites. > > My ls > /dev/null was a replacement of your fetching/processing web > > site contents and allow you to see the spinner/wheel actually spinning. > > Also I have one more question here... If i use xdg-openhttp://google.com > it was opening in a browser (user set default browser) > if i use xdg-open instead of HEAD in my script it is opening browser > with specified URL. I need to close opened browser/tab in order to > open another URL by the script. How can i solve this problem > Here is my script > #!/bin/bash > if [ -z "$1" ] > then > printf "Provide the text file location to process.\n" > exit 0 > fi > { > for i in `cat $1` > do > echo "`xdg-open $i`" > done} > > exit 0 > > Create a text file which contains some group of URLs and provide the > location. Twister, can i do one thing here. I will start the function in background and do the process when first url processes then it will kill the browser then again loop will open browser with next set of urls. Is there any way to open in same window instead of killing it and opening it again.?
From: Bit Twister on 8 Jun 2010 11:29
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:39:30 -0700 (PDT), srikanth wrote: > Twister, > can i do one thing here. I will start the function in background and > do the process when first url processes then it will kill the browser > then again loop will open browser with next set of urls. Is there any > way to open in same window instead of killing it and opening it again.? Only kludges I can think of is find some application used to regression test gui applications. I know it would have to feed input into gui application to test it's functionally. No idea if "expect" could be used to feed urls to browser. As far as I am concerned you are using the wrong tool for what you are trying to do. If me, I would use wget or html2text, depending on site. I use those to fetch web pages to scan for updates to applications I have downloaded from that site. Snippet examples follow: _exe=$(basename $0) _ref_dir=/local/data/$_exe pick_msg=(" ") function compare_lst_ref { cmp -s $_lst_fn $_ref_fn if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then echo " ww ; diff -bBw $_ref_fn $_lst_fn \cp $_lst_fn $_ref_fn Get new $_app at $_url Download from $_download" > $_tmp_fn printf "%s\n" "${pick_msg[@]}" >> $_tmp_fn echo " This message is from /local/bin/$_exe " >> $_tmp_fn mail -s "$_app From $_exe" $USER < $_tmp_fn /bin/rm $_tmp_fn fi } # end compare_lst_ref #**************************************************** #* check for virtual box update #**************************************************** _app=virtbox _url='http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads' _download="$_url" _wgt_fn=$TMPDIR/Linux_Downloads _lst_fn=$TMPDIR/${_app}.lst _ref_fn=$_ref_dir/Linux_Downloads_${_app}.ref pick_msg=("Pick .i586.rpm") rm -f ${_wgt_fn}* wget $_url -o /dev/null grep -i Mandriva $_wgt_fn > $_lst_fn grep -i 'All distributions' $_wgt_fn >> $_lst_fn compare_lst_ref #**************************************************** #* check for java jre update #**************************************************** _app=jre _url='http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp' _download=$_url _lst_fn=$TMPDIR/${_app}.lst _ref_fn=$_ref_dir/${_app}.ref pick_msg=("Pick JRE and i586-rpm.bin") html2text -nobs -style pretty -width 132 $_url | grep "JRE" > $_lst_fn compare_lst_ref |