Re: lynx-dev lynx, cron and tty

[Stef Caunter]

With a local test file consisting of a 1000 character line,
lynx will put a "newline" in before $COLUMNS characters.

With -source it does not do this.

lynx -source file | wc
1       1       1001

lynx -dump file | wc
14      13      1014

You could do your https get with lynx -source and then parse
out the result with something else.

See below from the archive for why setting terminal modes
fails in cron.

     * To: address@hidden
     * Subject: Re: lynx-dev Re: Trying to run cmd_script via cron
     * From: Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
     * Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:36:58 -0400

> > Running in cron, you don't have
> > a /dev/tty, so things that try to set terminal modes will fail.
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote:

> >> i am still wrestling w/ running lynx from a cron job ...
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> >> stty cols 160 rows 80
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> >stty is likely to be less effective than setting environment variables
> >$LINES and $COLUMNS
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> i have tried this however w/o success ... this is why i looked into
> piping it through /dev/tty3
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> in my cron job bash script, i have tried:
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> there has to be something i am overlooking here. the outfile.txt
> has data from the navigation of the website in it. however, it looks
> like the entire web page is piped to the outfile using row and column
> parameters that are much lower than the ones exported. it appears
> that lynx is using parameters for standard output that are  smaller
> than the rows and columns of the webpage. the sizes i have selected
> in the cron job script i know to be sufficient to display an entire
> webpage from this site via lynx. i have seen this when runnin lynx
> in an xterm.
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> this is an interesting problem to me.
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