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Cool Bash Script to download APNotes

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AndrewTheArt

Posted: Apr 27 2008, 05:07 PM

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Hey guys,

If anybody here uses Linux/Unix, then they can take advantage of this cool Bash script I made to download all the APNotes chatpers (1-41) into one massive text file.

You need to have Lynx installed for this to work - in Ubuntu, just type -

CODE

sudo apt-get install lynx

Here are the one-liners you can paste in your terminal to get the notes-

One massive text file with all chapters

CODE

for i in $(seq 1 41); do lynx -dump http://www.apnotes.net/ch${i}.html >> ApNotesAllChapters.txt; done;

Individual text files for each chapter

CODE

for i in $(seq 1 41);do lynx -dump http://www.apnotes.net/ch${i}.html >> Ch${i}APNotes.txt; done;

Here are the"script" versions of the above (basically just prettier formatting)

One massive text file with all chapters

CODE

#/bin/bash
for i in $(seq 1 41);
do
lynx -dump http://www.apnotes.net/ch${i}.html >> ApNotesAllChapters.txt;
done

Individual text files for each chapter

CODE

#/bin/bash
for i in $(seq 1 41);
do
lynx -dump http://www.apnotes.net/ch${i}.html >> Ch${i}.txt;
done

Enjoy, and give me credit if you post this elsewhere, please

- Andrew

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