Convert HTML to ASCII
 

Hi guys. I have a little question :).

i have made the following script:

#!/bin/bash
wget -r --user=chris --password=chris http://server1/logs.html
cd /root/chris/server1
firefox logs.html

the script copies and firefox it and show this as HTML and it works for me.

But how can i make it show me the output as ASCII text and not HTML ?.
i have tryied to pipe it out to LESS and MORE without firefoxing it, but it doesnt work for me.

Thanks in advance gents.

//Chris

I think you mean show it as plain text. Even the html is being encoded as ascii. You need an "html to text converter" (which of course is what a browser is......)

Have you searched on Google?

Or maybe "man -k html"

Hi,

You can use lynx to dump the URL into ascii:
Regards

Or just display it using the links text-only web browser:

Might need to install links first.