[lug] Scripting help, lynx

Ken Weinert kenw at quarter-flash.com
Tue May 3 08:29:35 MDT 2011


On 5/3/2011 8:23 AM, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> This worked rather well:
>
>
> for file in `find ./ -name *.html`
> do
>       lynx -nolist -dump $file>  $file.txt
>       rm -f $file
> done
>
> find  ./ -name '*.html.txt' | while read file ; do mv $file
> ${file%.html.txt}.txt ; done
>
>
Or just shortcut it:

for file in `find ./ -name *.html`
do
      lynx -nolist -dump $file>  ${file%%.html}.txt
      rm -f $file
done





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