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Some *nix help, if you would?

  • 14-09-2009 12:59PM
    #1
    smcelhinney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭


    Id like to create a cron job to grab RSS and store locally. There's some spurious content at the start of this xml, so Id like to strip it out. How do I take the results of a wget, pass to a tr and store the file locally. I have a feeling Im almost there:
    wget http://example.com/rss.xml | tr -cd '\11\12\40-\176'

    Any ideas?


Comments

  • #2
    FruitLover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    sed is probably the man for this


  • #3
    Skrynesaver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Skrynesaver


    First off wget saves to a file, so you need to either act on the file or set STDOUT to the pipe eg. 
    wget  -q -O - http://example.com/rss.xml

    Then if your tr command works you're in business


  • #4
    smcelhinney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭smcelhinney


    super, set me on the right track.
    wget  -q -O - http://example.com/test.xml | tr -cd '\11\12\40-\176' > output.xml

    seems to do the trick.


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