[geeks] ksh for loop question

Brian Hechinger wonko at 4amlunch.net
Fri May 10 11:19:32 CDT 2002


On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:25:08AM -0700, David Passmore wrote:
> 
> Well, if you can make it to Dulles, VA in the next half an hour, feel
> free... I'm going to lunch at 1.

hmmm, how far is Dulles from Chantilly?  i still need to go down and smack
that asshole developer from UMI.  kill two birds with one stone.  ;)

> okay, how about
> cat file_list.txt | perl -n -e 'system("wget \"http://www.server.com/$_\"");'

Kurt's %20 suggestion worked, but i'll try this to see if it works.

ok, not really:

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
12:36:28 ERROR -1: Malformed status line.

don't worry about it, i'll just go Kurt's way.

thanks for trying!

-brian
-- 
Whoops, nevermind...  the compile just imploded, crashing the xterm it was
running in as well...  Thanks, Richard...              -- George Adkins --



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