A. Costa wrote:
> Is there a text 'grep' for web pages? If not, that'd
> be good.
>
> I'm thinking something that acts like this ad hoc function, only better:
>
> # usage: URLgrep pattern URL
> # (ad hoc grep switches return first instance of 'pattern'
> # in URL and next line, with numbered lines.)
> URLgrep() { wget -o /dev/null --output-document=- "$2" | html2text -ascii
> -nobs | grep -in -A 1 -m 1 "$1" ; }The fact that this can be implemented as a simple shell pipeline (or more likely, as many different shell pipelines, depending on exact need) is a good indication that it's not a good candidate for moreutils. -- see shy jo
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