[SOLVED] wget

burning · 08-02-2020, 04:13 AM

So I'm fairly new to linux in general and I'm starting to try and learn shell scripting. I've found a decent tutorial at http://web.deu.edu.tr/doc/oreily/unix/ksh/index.htm
but I'd like to be able to read it and similar pages when not connected to the net. Would wget be the recommended method for such a task? I'd preferably like to be able to read it in similar fashion to the system's man pages but if wget saves the pages as .html files, then I guess I could just open them in links browser.

shruggy · 08-02-2020, 04:55 AM

This is from the very first edition of The UNIX CD Bookshelf by O'Reilly from year 1998. The book itself is even older. Besides, bash is the standard shell on Linux, not ksh. I think you'll be better off learning bash scripting with Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide or Greg's Bash Guide. The official GNU Bash Manual is also very useful and can be downloaded in different formats.

mrmazda · 08-02-2020, 05:11 AM

Wget saves whatever you ask it to save. If 'wget http://web.deu.edu.tr/doc/oreily/unix/ksh/index.htm' you get a file named index.htm. If 'http://web.deu.edu.tr/doc/oreily/unix/ksh/' you get a file named index.html. Except for the name, both are identical, so work identically in a browser. 'wget http://web.deu.edu.tr/doc/oreily/unix/ksh/' implies a request for 'http://web.deu.edu.tr/doc/oreily/unix/ksh/index.html'.

crts · 08-02-2020, 05:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

Besides, bash is the standard shell on Linux, not ksh. I think you'll be better off learning bash scripting ...

I think this maybe related to this issue, where the provided install script is, in fact, a ksh script.

@OP: This command should do what you want:

Code:

wget -k --no-parent -r 'http://web.deu.edu.tr/doc/oreily/unix/ksh/index.htm'

burning · 08-02-2020, 05:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

This is from the very first edition of The UNIX CD Bookshelf by O'Reilly from year 1998. The book itself is even older. Besides, bash is the standard shell on Linux, not ksh. I think you'll be better off learning bash scripting with Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide or Greg's Bash Guide. The official GNU Bash Manual is also very useful and can be downloaded in different formats.

Thank you

but I am also learning bash as well. I'm just trying to learn Korn shell so I can edit a korn script I want to edit at some point.

And thanks crts!