Script to download latest from Julians Site

[Dhawal Doshy]

Lance Haig wrote:
> Has anyone written a script that you can use to download the latest 
> versions of programs from Julian's site?

#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment next line for tar version
# wget http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/tar/
wget http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/rpm/

wget http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/rpm/`cat 
index.html | awk -F "href=\"" '{print $2}' | awk -F "\"" '{print $1}' | 
grep -v sig$ | grep ^MailScanner | sort | tail -1`

rm -f index.html

replace awk with gawk for solaris..

- dhawal

> I was just wondering as I always download them locally first then have 
> to upload and if I am on dial up it takes forever.
> 
> if this has not been done I want to try to write one.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lance