wget tcl

[pinkel]

Is it possible to use wget in .tcl?

[Sir_Fz]

You can execute shell commands using the [exec] Tcl command.

[nml375]

Be advised that exec will block code execution while the command is executed, so downloading large files or accessing slow servers this way may cause your bot to become unresponsive for some time and possibly disconnect from the irc network. You could of course tell wget to run in bg-mode using the -b flag, which would make the exec-command return instantly.

Another way is to use pipes with open, and then user fileevents to read any output from the command.

[pinkel]

so someting like this will work?

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[exec wget -O -b /var/www/temp/$filename $url]

[nml375]

Yes, kind of. Since wget will return immediately, it really won't return anything useful, so I don't see any use for the [].

Edit:
To be abit more clear;

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set somevar [exec wget -b -O /var/www/temp/$filename $url]

This will not produce much interesting information into somevar, and you might just aswell just do like this:

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exec wget -b -O /var/www/temp/$filename $url

[Elfriede]

i know an old thread, but how to make that run completely in the background or minimized? can someone please help

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set somevar [exec wget -b -O /var/www/temp/$filename $url]