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Re: A Little curl/script help, please

At 11:52 AM -0400 07/01/2002, Robert C Jacobson wrote:
>At 8:24 AM -0700 7/1/02, Marconi wrote:
>>I need to call curl to periodically retrieve a page via http and if a certain word or phrase is present, execute a shell script to start a carbon application.
>>
>>I'm guessing that the curl part is probably a one or two-liner for someone knowledgeable. Would anyone care to offer a generic script of the type:
>>
>>curl <URL> | [processing for the <magic words> ]
>>line to execute if magic words are present
>>
>>or something similar?
>>
>>This would need to run from cron without anyone logged in.
>
>one-liner:
>
>if [ `curl -s URL | grep -qi magic_word; echo $?` ]; then open -a Application ; fi
>
>Problem is, if noone is logged in, I don't think that Carbon application will launch.

Actually, it can be launched by a script including this line...

sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/Current/Support/LaunchCFMApp /Applications/path_to_application &

I'll give your one-liner a try. I just need to change "then open -a Application" to call my launcher script.

Thanks muchly.
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