[ILUG] Re: Grabbing text from a web site

[Gareth Martin]

On Fri 23 Apr 2004 22:01, Sean Rima wrote:
> Justin MacCarthy writes:
> > pipe wget into sed/grep whatever?
> > Or use a perl module

> I will have a look at that as well

I use this to obtain my router's public ip address:
ROUTERIP=`/usr/bin/wget --quiet -O - 
'http://user:password@10.0.0.1/doc/home.htm' | grep st_wan_ip | cut -s -d '"' 
-f2 | cut -d '<' -f1`