possibly useful script

[David Weatherford <david dot weatherford at sun dot com>]

I thought I'd share a small script that I wrote to fetch the "new" proposals
from Mike's web site.  It will optionally convert the html to "iSilo" format
for the Palm, as well.

Enjoy!

-- 
Dave Weatherford                Forte Tools
David.Weatherford@Sun.COM       Sun Microsystems, Inc.
#!/bin/ksh

# creates 001122.1.html and 001122.1.pdb (e.g.) in the current directory for
# each "new" proposal at Mike Eager's DWARF 2 status web site

# uses lynx, awk, sed, and (optionally) iSiloSpc (for Palm iSilo html reader)

doPalm=true # change this to false if you don't have the iSilo converter

TMP=/tmp/fetch.$$
trap "rm -f $TMP*" 0 1 2 3 15

lynx -source "http://www.eagercon.com/dwarf/dwarf2std.htm" >$TMP.1

awk '
/issues.[90][90][01][0-9][0-3][0-9]-.*\.htm/ {
  start = index($0, "issues")
  end = index($0, ".htm") + 4
  url = "http://www.eagercon.com/dwarf/" substr($0, start, end - start)
}
/>N</ { print url }  # only "new" proposals
' <$TMP.1 >$TMP.2

for i in $(< $TMP.2)
do
  n=$(echo $i | sed 's|.*issues/\(.*\).htm|\1|' | sed 's/-/./')
  lynx -source "$i" >$n.html
  if $doPalm
  then
    iSiloSpc $n.html >/dev/null  # make .pdb for Palm
  fi
done
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