2014-01-06



If people can't organize digital  data  in  a  way  that  can  be
operated  upon  in  a sane way, one needs to take approaches that
just do the job, no matter how.  If  you  can't  ignore  it,  you
better automate the ugly stuff.

The time tables (Stdplan) are put on a web server every once in a
while.  There is always only one time table in the directory, but
it's file name changes (as it contains the date of last  change).
To fetch it, I used wget recursively with wildcards.  (Don't know
if it could be done better; this one did the job, at least.)

Then, to ease the further processing, I added switches to display
the file at once (on a given page) or print given pages of it.

Currently, I use ``stdplan -s 5'' a lot.

     wget -q -nd -r -l 1 --user=foo --password=bar \
             http://example.org/timetables/ -A 'Stdplan*.pdf'

     if [ "$1" = "-s" ] ; then
             xpdf Stdplan*.pdf $2 2>/dev/null &
     elif [ "$1" = "-p" ] ; then
             lp -P "$2" Stdplan*.pdf &
     fi



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>