[Gloucs] Conversion script.

Andrew M.A. Cater amacater at galactic.demon.co.uk
Thu Jun 26 11:12:57 BST 2008


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
> Geoff Bagley wrote:
>> Please does anyone have a neat command line script able to convert the  
>> readable portion of a file from
>> .asp.html  or just plain html  to  anything more convenient such as 
>> .txt or any of the OO types ?
>
> elinks -dump -no-numbering -no-references http://news.bbc.co.uk
>
> man elinks for various other formatting options.
>
> Some systems use lynx instead of elinks.
>
> -- 
> Andrew Oakley
>
If you've got a lot of this to do, look at tidy to demunge the html 
FIRST :)

AndyC

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