put url in script

[Igaduma]

Hi all,

I don't know too much about scripting, only the basisc really.
We've got internally a short message server which forwards any test message thrown at it.

Using this in combination with scripts I could get the machines to forward me stats & such on my mobile.
Not really a must-have but surely a nice-to-have...

But, I have no idea how I can get a simple script to do an "openURL" command.

It works when I call

#netscape -remote openURL'heregoesurl'

But I would like to just fire it out from inside the script.

This is the url:

http://****.***.be/cgi-bin/SendSMSM...text=$message_text&notification=$notification

Everything is parsed on 1 line.

Thanks for any help!

 

[Annihilannic]

I believe wget is the definitive tool for accessing web pages from the command line. Available from

http://www.sunfreeware.com.

Annihilannic.

 

[Igaduma]

Hi there,

I searched after posting...maybe next time I should do it the other way round...

Anyway, I found cURL on the net, which does exactly what I need.

wget should be something similar,

another thing....

how can I store the output of /usr/bin/uptime in a variable in a script and call it somewhere else ?

thanks!

 

[Annihilannic]

[tt]UPTIME=`/usr/bin/uptime`
echo "The uptime output was ${UPTIME}"[/tt]

Is that what you mean? Annihilannic.

 

[Igaduma]

In a way yeah,

But it returns here:

the uptime output was /usr/bin/uptime

I would think it would put the actual *output* of the command instead of the command location no ?

 

[Annihilannic]

Oh, the quotes I used are backquotes (probably not very easy to see). Usually the top left key on the keyboard-proper... i.e. under Esc.

Alternatively, if you're using Korn shell you could use:

[tt]UPTIME=$(/usr/bin/uptime)[/tt] Annihilannic.

 

[Igaduma]

Hi Annihilannic,

it works!
Perfect...

Now another one...how to swap in a text string the ascii spaces with a + sign ?


Thanks for the great help already !!