I'm not exactly sure what the practice or policy is regarding
attachments, but as I've seen status reports and whatnot pasted into
messages to the list, I will do so for this script and leave it to those
who want to use it to copy and edit.

SJ Wright

#!/bin/bash
#readycurl.sh -- A script to keep the 'curl -o' option handy
#when downloading from several sites or servers.
#Tested and working with:
#curl 7.20.0 (i686-pc-cygwin) libcurl/7.20.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
libidn/1.16 libssh2/1.2.2
#(ymmv)

logtime=$(date "+%d.%m.%Y-%H.%M")
logname="curlactivity-$logtime.log"
touch $logname
echo -ne "Log started at `date "+%d.%m.%Y @ %H:%M:%S"`.\n\n">>$logname

while true
do
echo -ne "What is your file to be called?\n"
read theName
if [ $theName != "done" ]
then
    thisFile=$theName
    echo -ne "Where is the file?\n"
    read thisSource
    dimple=$(echo ${thisSource:0:5})
        if [ $dimple != "http:" ]
        then
            echo -ne "I'm exiting.\n" && break
        else
        GRABTIME=$(date "+%d.%m.%Y @ %H:%M:%S")
        thisPlace=`echo $thisSource | rev | cut -d / -f2- | rev`
        thisName=`echo ${thisSource##*/}`
        if [ -f $logname ]; then
            curl -o "$thisFile" "$thisSource" && echo -ne "$GRABTIME":
"$thisFile" came from "$thisPlace/" and was called "$thisName\n">> $logname
        fi
        fi
else
    echo -ne "Alright. I quit!\n" && break
fi
done
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Received on 2010-03-01