Walter Bright wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
It took me a couple of minutes to write under her eyes a script that
downloaded HTML, scraped the code for links, followed those of
interest, and output a concatenation of all pages she was interested
in, with details highlighted, that was loadable back in the browser.
I'd show her one iteration, get feedback, and get the next iteration
within seconds. All without "coding" in any sense as regularly
understood by Windows programmers.
I have no idea how to do that under unix. I obviously have not learned
anywhere near enough about it.
I suppose you know all the tools you need for that: a POSIX shell, wget,
sed, maybe sort, some xargs and pipes!
