[NTLUG:Discuss] Automating Lynx

[Chris Cox]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:

> It appears that one should be able to automate lynx with popen3(),
> however, lynx seems to want to go directly to the console rather than
> stdin.  I seem to remember a mechanism to fool it, but its been a long
> time sine then, so I'm asking anyone here...  Is it possible to script
> lynx?


I guess there could be a reson to do this.... I would use Tcl expect.
http://expect.nist.gov/

However... it all depends on what needs to be done... for many tasks,
wget may be sufficient.

I'm curious... what exactly are you trying to do?

Thanks,
Chris