Re: script coded, doesnt work, when spawned with -x works

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

there a more comlete version

On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 12:28 AM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
wrote:

> here a seemfully perfect working version
>
> most work in between now was the gawk transformation from relative links
> to absolute
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:24 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ohhhhhhhh i have the data parsing stream in
>> not the user input tty
>> thank you =))
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:23 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> .. i replaced the -p with a printf before
>>> the read just exits
>>>
>>> .. no idea
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:18 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> may there be some read -p length overflow bug
>>>>
>>>> it shows
>>>> as it should
>>>> read as last command
>>>>
>>>> <..long -p input>
>>>> Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
>>>> 123)
>>>>  //www.fsf.org/about/dmca-notice
>>>>   Copyright Infringement Notification
>>>> >' -N 1 read
>>>>
>>>> # read variable of read command
>>>>
>>>> but exits..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:16 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <
>>>> fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:13 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <
>>>>> fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 10:31 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 3/31/22 12:16 PM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
>>>>>>> > i coded [ or tried ] to code a ' urlhop '
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > script url
>>>>>>> > shows menu of links with titles to select to next fetch
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > now just, why doesnt it work
>>>>>>> > i try bash run gnu.org it doesnt work, nothing back
>>>>>>> > i do bash -x run gnu.org it displayed a menu and waited for input
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > run is the bash part ( eg urlhop )
>>>>>>> > and urlhop.gawk is the html parser
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > proof i have :
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > bash run gnu.org
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > 0 exit 4621s old @1648743015.301939 == Thu Mar 2022-03-31
>>>>>>> 16:10:15.301939
>>>>>>> > +0000
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > bash -x run gnu.org
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > <snip>
>>>>>>> > 9)
>>>>>>> >   #content
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > 10)
>>>>>>> >   /gnu/gnu.html
>>>>>>> >    ABOUT&nbsp;GNU
>>>>>>> > 11)
>>>>>>> >   /philosophy/philosophy.html
>>>>>>> >    PHILOSOPHY
>>>>>>> > 12)
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > you see its buggy i have to fix it but i cant as long as it only
>>>>>>> works with
>>>>>>> > -x
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My bet is that it doesn't `work' with -x, but that you interpret the
>>>>>>> -x
>>>>>>> output as some kind of result.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> yea i misinterpreted, .. it exited also no read user menu loop
>>>>> i saw menu entries though .. in set -x .. which partly i pasted from
>>>>> it seems
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> hm i dont have any related code in use at all
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i run bash run gnu.org and expected a shit
>>>>>> it exits 0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i ran with -x to see where its hung
>>>>>> it .. maybe ran maybe not yes i gotta check im not sure here sorry
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How do you expect this to work, anyway? You consume the entire
>>>>>>> standard
>>>>>>> input in urlhop.reader, throwing everything into one long string,
>>>>>>> then try
>>>>>>> to read again? What do you expect that second read to do? Why?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> its the simple principe of recursed function use
>>>>>> where in meta its 1. fetch url 2. analyze url 3. read output of
>>>>>> parsing and proceed further, like beging with 1. and new url again
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i .. err .. read again to make input sure
>>>>>> user might type b which is no entry
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>>>>>>>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
>>>>>>> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu
>>>>>>> http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>

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