Re: [Lynx-dev] How to stop the terminal display

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Biswajit Paul wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using lynx as a crawler + text extractor.
>
> lynx    -crawl    -traversal   -accept_all_cookies    <URL>
>
> By default, when crawling, lynx continuously keep displaying html pages on
> terminal and save dump(plain text) in file.
>
> But I do NOT want any display on the terminal. How to stop the terminal
> display ?

Did you try redirecting the display to /dev/null?

For example

lynx -crawl -traversal -accept_all_cookies <URL>   >/dev/null

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