In your script, you could use wget or curl or lynx to download that web page, then pipe it into some creative use of grep/sed/awk/perl to extract just the title, then another pipe to another round of grep/sed/awk/perl to get just the revision number.
Untested, but something like this should be close to working: lynx -dump http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/svn/apl/trunk/ | sed '2q;d' | awk '{ print $3 }' You might have to play around with the sed or the awk column or something, but this should be a good first step. ~Brian ________________________________ Brian Robert Callahan, Ph.D. Lecturer, ITWS@RPI Office: Amos Eaton 132 ________________________________ From: Peter Teeson [peter.tee...@me.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 3:33 PM To: Callahan, Brian Robert Cc: bug-apl@gnu.org Subject: Re: How find GNUAPL svn repository revision number Thanks for your reply but I don’t understand what you mean by ‘scrape that’ On Sep 22, 2020, at 2:21 PM, Callahan, Brian Robert <call...@rpi.edu<mailto:call...@rpi.edu>> wrote: http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/svn/apl/trunk/ Will be in the page title. I'd say scrape that since it's easy to do so. ~Brian ________________________________ Brian Robert Callahan, Ph.D. Lecturer, ITWS@RPI Office: Amos Eaton 132 ________________________________ From: Bug-apl [bug-apl-bounces+callab5=rpi....@gnu.org<mailto:bug-apl-bounces+callab5=rpi....@gnu.org>] on behalf of Peter Teeson [peter.tee...@me.com<mailto:peter.tee...@me.com>] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:17 PM To: bug-apl@gnu.org<mailto:bug-apl@gnu.org> Subject: How find GNUAPL svn repository revision number I’ve searched and read for the answer but come up dry. I’m on macOS High Sierra Assume I have svn co'd …trunk to a local working copy I want to write a bash script to compare the local working copy revision number vs the svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/apl/trun<UrlBlockedError.aspx> repository revision number. I know how to find out the revision number of my local working copy using svnversion or svn info if i need more data. My question: But I don’t know how to script to get the revision number of the svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/apl/trun<UrlBlockedError.aspx> Please help…. Thanks Peter
