possible?

Papillon · Post by **Papillon** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 2:57 pm

Is it possible to make the bot do commands on the shell account? Like lynx, gunzip etc... if it is.. how?

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 4:37 pm

Yes it is and no it isn't.

It all depends what you want to do with them, how they interact with the shell and if you have access.

For gunzip, you can use commands provided by the compress module.

For lynx, you could use the http package provided by Tcl.

Papillon · Post by **Papillon** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 9:46 am

I've tried doing wat u said... but it wont work, or I'm doing something wrong....
What I want to do is make the bot download a *.gz file and then unzip it to get hold of the data contained within... The .gz file is updated every hour, and it contains alot of info.

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 11:15 am

What exactly have you done?

GodOfSuicide · Post by **GodOfSuicide** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 1:04 pm

my typ : try it with crontab..

there u an implement those 2 :
wget <url>
tar <settings> <file>

mfg g0s

Papillon · Post by **Papillon** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 9:18 am

thx GodOfSuicide.. it worked

only u forgot to add: rm -rf <file>
wouldn't take to long to fill up the shell when the bot downloaded a 250 kb file every 10 mins

GodOfSuicide · Post by **GodOfSuicide** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 2:11 pm

np

i think yer shell provider would be glad if he hears about