On 04/22/2013 07:15 AM, david vann wrote: [putolin]
> To this end, I made the following little command, that extracts all > the software tarball links from the book, and downloads them. I mean, > who the heck wants to click on links when we can do this: > > ~$ wget -nc $(grep -h -e > '\([1-z]\(.\|/\)\+\).\(bz2\|xz\|zip\|gz\|gzip\|patch\)' $(find > ../../../Documents/blfs/ -type f -name '*.html') | sed -e 's@^\s\+@@' > -e 's:</a>:\n:' -e 's:">:\n:' | grep '^\(ht\|ft\)' | sort -u -t: -k 2) > > replace ../../../Documents/blfs/ with the root directory of your local > copy of the book. Then, you get the software from the recommended > place without overloading anybody's server. If you're like me, and are > sort of catch as catch can on internet access, you can have all of the > packages you might need, even if you build 32 bit for one box, and 64 > bit for another. I don't know if anyone will find this useful, but I > found it useful for myself. And I got to learn about regular > expressions and several command line tools :) > > Doesn't work for me and I am having trouble parsing this. I think a bash script would have been better -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
