[BL] script to extract http://'s from a doc.

sindi keesan keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
Sat Mar 3 17:44:33 EST 2007


Abiword (wvware) produced the same result as catdoc, one HTTP link and 
nothing else.

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Samual Acorn wrote:

> give 'catdoc' a try... i havent tested it but it (supposedly) does
> what its namesake says... it 'cats' doc files as plain text... use it
> in the same way you would use cat...
>
> http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/
>
> linux source and dos binaries (with source) available...
>
>>
>> Would anyone on the list under 30 like a Balinese penpal interested in
>> languages and popular music for guitar and voice?  One short email a week.
>> She writes excellent English and has taught it.  There might be others
>> wanting penpals in her translation class.
>>
>
> electric or acoustic guitar? (to get an idea of what type of popular
> music we are talking about)
>
> On 01/03/07, sindi keesan <keesan at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>> My new Balinese translator penpal sent me what she said was a few photos,
>> which is 186K of .doc file containing some long URLs at a German website,
>> which contains the photos.
>>
>> This explains why doc2png found nothing.
>>
>> How do I extract the URLs (any string starting with http://) to a file
>> that I can then access with lynx or links?
>>
>>
>> Xvesa -2button  or gpm are not so elegant as a script.
>>
>> Would anyone on the list under 30 like a Balinese penpal interested in
>> languages and popular music for guitar and voice?  One short email a week.
>> She writes excellent English and has taught it.  There might be others
>> wanting penpals in her translation class.
>>
>>
>> The script to append to .procmailrc should be useful.  Two people want a
>> spam filter already.
>>
>> Sindi
>>
>> keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
>> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>>
>
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