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What is the best way to get a variable from another server with a shell script?

What is the best way to get a variable from another server with a shell script?

IE. Can I have domain.com/var.txt
and var.txt contains either a 0 or a 1
and then have a shell script run every 5 minutes via crontab with the code as follows (so if var.txt contains a 1, dostuff.sh will execute):
#!/bin/bash
var = wget domain.com/var.txt
if $var == 1
/root/dostuff.sh

TIA!

There are number of ways, using wget with option -O (as in OK) like this should be the easiest:

Code:

var=$(wget -O - http://domain.com/var.txt)

the O option is to output result to stdout instead of a file.
[ More wget examples can be found @ http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lar...v1/wget_7.html ]

Or you can use a python script like this to do the job:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os

from urllib import urlopen

raw_text=urlopen('http://domain.com/var.txt').read()

var=raw_text.strip()  # in case there's ending \n

if var=='1':

    f=os.popen('/root/dostuff.sh')

    # the stdout can then be obtained through f.readline(), if needed

Thanks!

I actually ended up doing it in perl:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$var=qx[wget -O - http://domain/var.txt];
if($var > 0){
qx[sh /root/dostuff.sh];
}