Is it possible to grab text from a online text file via grep/cat/awk or someting else? (in bash)
The way i currently do this is i download the text file to the drive and grep/cat into the file for it’s text.
curl -o “$TMPDIR”/”text.txt” http://www.example.com/text.txt
cat/grep “$TMPDIR”/text.txt
rm -rf “$TMPDIR”/”text.txt”
Is one of the text grabbers (or another one) capable enough to grab something from a text file on the internet?
This would get rid of the whole downloadfile-readfile-deletefile process and just replace it with one command, speeding up things considerably if you have a lot of those strings.
I couldn’t find anything via the man pages or googling around, maybe you guys know something.
Use
curl -o - http://www.example.com/text.txt | grep "something".-o -tells curl that it “downloads to stdout”, other utils such as wget, lynx and links also have corresponding functionality.