[colug-432] Podcast script

[Bill Baker]

The thing is, the URL to the .mp4 file changes every day.  I need to
download the .xml file and have the script search for that URL within
the .xml file.

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 11:35 -0400, Angelo McComis wrote:
> Bill- there are options to wget that would allow you to do what you
> want all on one line.
> 
> Look at some of the include and mirroring flags.
> 
> I'm not at a terminal but you coils essentially say
> 
> Wget --include=m4v --mirror URL savepath
> 
> 
> - Angelo
> 
> {via mobile device}
> 
> On Mar 29, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Bill Baker <bill_chris at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to write a script that downloads a web page that has the
> > URL
> > for a podcast on it, searches for the URL (which ends with .m4v) and
> > downloads it to my Desktop.  Here's what I have so far:
> >
> > ---------------
> > #!/bin/bash
> > wget --no-cache http://podcasturl/podcast.xml
> > url=`grep .m4v podcast.xml`
> > wget $url -O ~/Desktop
> > rm podcast.xml
> > ---------------
> >
> > I know that in the third line grep doesn't work because it returns the
> > whole line, not just the URL.  Is there anything else I can use to get
> > it to return just the URL?
> >
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