Bash script help

joebu23 · 05-11-2006, 06:55 PM

Hello, fairly new to linux and I have an issue that I am hoping someone can help me with. I want to write a bash script that will look up the info of my dsl router (via http) automatically every 24 hours or so and email me the page so that I can tell when my ip address changes when I am not at home.

jschiwal · 05-11-2006, 07:54 PM

You might be able to use curl or wget to retrieve the status page from the router and extract the IP lease information from the page using sed. The hardest part may be getting the HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options to authenticate with the router properly.

cs-cam · 05-11-2006, 08:03 PM

Here is something to start with, if you have trouble with the regex in sed/awk/grep post back what you tried and where it went wrong and we'll help.

Code:

lynx -dump http://192.168.0.254 | sed/awk/grep