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wget tcl

2010-02-10T19:27:42-04:00

i know an old thread, but how to make that run completely in the background or minimized? can someone please help

Code:

set somevar [exec wget -b -O /var/www/temp/$filename $url]

Statistics: Posted by Elfriede — Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:27 pm

wget tcl

2008-05-31T15:20:02-04:00

Yes, kind of. Since wget will return immediately, it really won't return anything useful, so I don't see any use for the [].

Edit:
To be abit more clear;

Code:

set somevar [exec wget -b -O /var/www/temp/$filename $url]

This will not produce much interesting information into somevar, and you might just aswell just do like this:

Code:

exec wget -b -O /var/www/temp/$filename $url

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Sat May 31, 2008 3:20 pm

wget tcl

2008-05-31T07:43:01-04:00

so someting like this will work?

Code:

[exec wget -O -b /var/www/temp/$filename $url]

Statistics: Posted by pinkel — Sat May 31, 2008 7:43 am

wget tcl

2008-05-31T07:03:13-04:00

Be advised that exec will block code execution while the command is executed, so downloading large files or accessing slow servers this way may cause your bot to become unresponsive for some time and possibly disconnect from the irc network. You could of course tell wget to run in bg-mode using the -b flag, which would make the exec-command return instantly.

Another way is to use pipes with open, and then user fileevents to read any output from the command.

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Sat May 31, 2008 7:03 am

wget tcl

2008-05-31T06:51:28-04:00

You can execute shell commands using the [exec] Tcl command.

Statistics: Posted by Sir_Fz — Sat May 31, 2008 6:51 am

wget tcl

2008-05-31T05:30:20-04:00

Is it possible to use wget in .tcl?

Statistics: Posted by pinkel — Sat May 31, 2008 5:30 am