[plug] Redirecting Web Data

[Peter Wright]

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:40:28PM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2000 mbailey at ois.com.au wrote:
> 
> > I have a need to send URL to the web from say the bash prompt and
> > feed the data that is returned into a text file.
> 
> wget http://url.goes.here/ -O file.txt

Alternatively, if the information returned is HTML and you'd rather
have it formatted as text:

lynx -dump http://url.goes.here/ > file.txt

>  - Matt

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