On Fri, 18 May 2001, Ellen Spertus wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> >Lynx isn't a shell script, you can invoke it directly in the exec() call.
>
> The reason I don't invoke lynx directly is because I am redirecting its
> output to a file, which of course requires a shell. I think that was
> obscured by some bad line breaks in my original message. Let's see if this
> is any clearer:
>
> /bin/sh -c lynx -dump -force_html 94.text-html > 94.text-plain
>
Yes, I noticed the redirection. Have you actually LOOKED at 94.text-plain
when you invoke this command string manually? Lynx is going into ncurses
mode because it's confused.
lynx -dump -force_html 94.text-html > 94.text-plain
does exactly what you want.
/bin/sh -c lynx -dump -force_html 94.text-html > 94.text-plain
does not.
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