> There are several urls on loc.gov that will retrieve book information > from an ISBN. The one below has no problem with session cookies. So > wouldn't this quick and dirty one-liner do what you want? > > > #!/bin/sh > > # loc.sh <ISBN> > > elinks -dump -dump-charset utf8 -no-references -no-numbering \ > "http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zclient?host=z3950.loc.gov&port=\ > 7090&attrset=BIB1&rtype=USMARC&DisplayRecordSyntax=HTML&ESN=F&startrec=\ > > 1&maxrecords=10&dbname=Voyager&srchtype=1,7,2,3,3,1,4,1,5,1,6,1&term_term_1=\ > $1" > > so loc.sh 1886411484 will output the information for the Linux Cookbook > in a pure text format. >
Well that certainly looks a lot better than what I came up with. I will have to give it a try, but doubt I will have time before Friday to play with this again. I'll let you know. Out of curiosity, can this be done with lynx instead since I have it installed? If not, I can always install elinks. Thanks! Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1349192494.403730...@webmail.gtek.biz