Albert Reiner <[email protected]> writes: > Consider the following situation (running WWWOFFLE 2.9a under Linux):
Did you realise that this version of WWWOFFLE that you are using is 3 years old? The current version is 2.9e and that is nearly a year old. > Suppose I have a list of URLs, say, URL1 URL2 URL3..., some of which > are already present in the cache. Now I want to make sure that, once > I am online again, those and only those URLi will be fetched that are > not already in the cache. > But what I would really like is some additional option such that > > cat <list-of-URLs> | xargs wwwoffle -<new-option> > > will do the right thing, i.e., `wwwoffle -<new-option> URL1 URL2...` > would behave like `wwwoffle URL1 URL2...` for URLi not already cached > but skips those that are not present (and outputs some message like > 'URLi is already in the cache, will not be fetched again' on stderr). > > Would this be a valuable feature to add? And is there any chance this > will actually be added in the future? Comments? I think that -<new-option> actually exists and is -o. The following should do what you want (you need to throw away the output of the "wwwoffle -o" command and only pass in one URL at a time). cat <list-of-URLs> | xargs wwwoffle -n 1 -o > /dev/null -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop [email protected] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.9/user.html
