Checking the links to your site (from affiliates) using cron and bash script.

2010-05-27 2 min read Fedora Learning Linux Uncategorized
If you have some affiliate links and are concerned about their presence then you can setup <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b" title="Cron" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron to check the links for you regularly. For this you need a very simple script (as below) and a cron entry (example further down). #!/bin/bash – #=============================================================================== # FILE: checklinks.sh # USAGE: ./checklinks.sh # DESCRIPTION: Check if the links exists on affiliate sites # OPTIONS: — # REQUIREMENTS: — Continue reading

Mirror or download a website with a tool much better than wget

2010-05-19 1 min read bash Fedora Linux
If you want to mirror a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/website" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website">website, the simplest tool I know if is <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/wget" title="Wget" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/">wget. Once you have used wget, you know the troubles associated with it. You also get added couple of files as search html files, which are useless and wastage of bandwidth for you as well as the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/web_server" title="Web server" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server">webserver. lftp -e &#8221;mirror -c&#8221; This will mirror the website for you and will not leave with all those un-necessary files. Continue reading