Cron job with CodeIgniter using wget
php,codeigniter,cron,crontab,wget
You can force a particular shell with SHELL=bash */5 * etc... or whatever in the crontab. Then make sure wget is available in that shell's path. Otherwise just give an absolute /usr/bin/wget path instead. */5 * * * * /usr/bin/wget etc... ...
Compare file sizes and download if they're different via wget
You may try the -c option to continue the download of partially downloaded files, however the manual gives an explicit warning: You need to be especially careful of this when using -c in conjunction with -r, since every file will be considered as an "incomplete download" candidate. While there is...
How do I use wget in docker?
You need to install it first. Create a new Dockerfile, and install wget in it: FROM ubuntu:14.04 RUN apt-get update \ && apt-get install -y wget \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* Then, build that image: docker build -t my-ubuntu . Finally, run it: docker run my-ubuntu wget https://downloads-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu-14.04/gitlab_7.8.2-omnibus.1-1_amd64.deb ...
Python: wget randomly prints “-1 / unknown”
Wget.download() needs a third argument for a progress bar which I left out. Just add bar=None to wget.download(url, out='cache/page'): wget.download(url, out='cache/page', bar=None) ...
Automatically Download Latest WhatsApp APK using Shell Scripting
Seems like you need to manage the version yourself. I would store the apk files with a version number in the filename, e.g WhatsApp_<version-number>_.apk. So the script that downloads the newer file can be as following: # Get the local version oldVer=$(ls -v1 | grep -v latest | tail -n...
using wget to download a directory
Add the depth of links you want to follow (-l1, since you only want to follow one link): wget -e robots=off -l1 -r -np -nH -R index.html http://www.oecd-nea.org/dbforms/data/eva/evatapes/mendl_2/ I also added -e robots=off, since there is a robots.txt which would normally stop wget from going through that directory. For the...
Subprocess Popen not capturing wget --spider command result
stderr is capturing the output so because you are not piping stderr you are seeing the output when you run the command and stdout is empty: url = "http://torrent.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/trusty/release/desktop/xubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent" command = Popen(["wget", "--spider", url],stdout=PIPE,stderr=PIPE) out,err = command.communicate() print("This is stdout: {}".format(out)) print("This is stderr: {}".format(err)) This is stdout: b'' This...
ERROR: The certificate of `raw.githubusercontent.com' is not trusted
The solution was simple, from my debian system simply install: $ sudo apt-get install ca-certificates ...
wget returns with 500: Internal error, but browser works
Certain characters have special meaning when used on the command line. For example, if your URL there are several & characters, which tells the shell to run the command before it, and run the next command without waiting for the first one to finish, basally terminating the URL early, and...
AWS Elastic Beanstalk execute wget in cronjob
amazon-web-services,cron,wget,elastic-beanstalk
Since, Elastic Beanstalk instances auto-scale, you need to consider a few things. Does the cron run on every instance as its setup or just the leader instance? For the second option, here are the contents you should have in your project.config file: container_commands: 01_remove_old_cron_jobs: command: "crontab -r || exit 0"...
wget not downloading from authentic https url vaultpress
linux,wordpress,ubuntu,curl,wget
The ampersands in your URL make Linux create new processes running in the background. The PID is printed out behind the number in the square brackets. Write the URL within double quotes and try again: wget "https://dashboard.vaultpress.com/12345/restore/?step=4&job=12345678&check=<somehashedvalue>" ...
How to convert a link that has javascript:__doPostBack in href to normal url which wget/curl/lynx can understand?
javascript,shell,hyperlink,wget,lynx
You can't really do it analytically. __doPostBack could be arbitrarily complex. What you should do instead is install Firebug (assuming you are using Firefox), activate the Network tab, press "Persist", and then click that button. The Network tab will show you the actual network traffic, and you can deduce the...
Shell script wget download from S3 - Forbidden error
I suspect that the editor you used to write that script has left you a little "gift." The command line isn't the same. Look closely: --2014-06-26 07:33:57-- ... myFolder/myFile.so%0D ^^^ what's this about? That's urlencoding for ASCII CR, decimal 13 hex 0x0D. You have an embedded carriage return character in...
“Curl : (33) HTTP server doesn't seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume.”
I tried running this command twice: curl -L -C - 'http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/cultural/ne_10m_admin_0_sovereignty.zip' -o countries.zip and got the following output: $ curl -L -C - 'http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/cultural/ne_10m_admin_0_sovereignty.zip' -o countries.zip % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0...
wget: delete incomplete files
I made surprising discovery when attempting to implement tvm's suggestion. It turns out, and this something I didn't realize, that when you run wget -N, wget actually checks file sizes and verifies they are the same. If they are not, the files are deleted and then downloaded again. So cool...
Display wget console output in Gui
wget draws a progress bar using escape sequences (probably using curses). I'm guessing that this is preventing the QProcess object from capturing the output correctly. It doesn't look like there's a way to disable just the progress bar without disabling the rest of the verbose output. As a workaround, you...
Error closing wget subprocess in Python
Use subprocess.call import subprocess subprocess.call (['wget', '-P', '/', 'http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/wgs/?download=ACHI01.1.fsa_nt.gz']) ...
Segmentation fault (core dumped) in some cases
char file[10]; "page12.txt" has 11 characters in it including the null character. Please just do something like char file[128]. Memory is cheap. Time spent debugging is expensive....
Cron Job, call url with wget
Error found, I forgot to insert the user who run the command (root) Wrong: * * * * * wget -r http://«IP_SERVER»:8080/auctions/updateStatus Right: * * * * * root wget -r http://«IP_SERVER»:8080/auctions/updateStatus ...
Bash script to transform links and download images
This is far from a perfect solution, but you could always use your browser to list all the files you need to download and then use wget to download them : Run this javascript snippet in your browser : var imgs = document.getElementsByClassName("grid_item_thumb"); var html = ""; for(var i=0; i<imgs.length;...
How to pass url to wget
Using back ticks would be the easiest way of doing it: wget `grep -E 'www.website.de/picture/example_2015-06-15.jpeg' document` ...
Python equivalent of a given wget command
urllib.request should work. Just set it up in a while(not done) loop, check if a localfile already exists, if it does send a GET with a RANGE header, specifying how far you got in downloading the localfile. Be sure to use read() to append to the localfile until an error...
How to access https page via wget or curl?
The problem is not the SSL / https. The problem is the fact that facebook sees "wget" as the agent and tells "update your browser". You have to fool facebook with the --user-agent switch and imitate a modern browser. wget --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1" https://facebook.com/USERNAME -O index.html...
Limit recursion for off host pages when using wget
Sadly, yes. You're out of luck if you're trying to do this with just one command. Wget does not support different recursion depths for the parent host and other domains. However, you can use the following set of commands to effectively get what you're looking for: $ wget -r -H...
How to download all my caldav and carddav data with one wget / curl?
Please be more specific, what is the new service/server you are using? This is not specifically CalDAV, but most DAV servers still provide a way to grab all events/todos using a single GET. Usually by targeting the relevant collection with a GET, e.g. like either one of those: curl -X...
Linux script with curl to check webservice status
web-services,shell,unix,curl,wget
Check out this question: http://superuser.com/questions/272265/getting-curl-to-output-http-status-code You should be able tou se something like this (from the second answer there) in a script for your logic: curl -s -o /dev/null -I -w "%{http_code}" http://www.example.org/ Remove the -I if your web service doesn't like HEAD requests....
Odd file naming using wget with Nexus Rest API
Looks like the problem is the difference in wget setup in RedHat Enterprise Linux OS version 6.4 versus 6.6. I ended up just using the -O flag with wget to ensure the file name was what I wanted. wget -O SomeArtifact.1.0.0.war "http://our.nexus.net:8081/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect?g=com.somecompany&a=SomeArtifact&v=1.0.0&r=releases&p=war" ...
automating download of files with urllib2 and or wget
python,bash,cookies,urllib2,wget
Using a system call from within python should really be left for situations where there is no other choice. Use the requests library, like so: import requests header={"user-agent":\"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1\"", 'referer': referer} cookies = dict(cookie_name='cookie_text') r = requests.get(url, header=header, cookies=cookies) If it doesn't work, maybe the settings...
wget force retry until there is a connection
This loop should do this: while true;do wget -T 15 -c http://example.com && break done How it works: In case there is no network connection, the while loop will not break and it will run the wget command continuously and keep printing error message. As soon as it gets connected...
Linux-wget command
Try this to create a string variable n, with no leading whitespace (thanks @011c): n="10.0.0.135.527" wget http://infamvn:8081/nexus/content/groups/LDM_REPO_LIN64/com/infa/com.infa.products.ldm.ingestion.server.scala/"$n"-SNAPSHOT/com.infa.products.ldm.ingestion.server.scala-"$n"-20150622.210643-1-sources.jar ...
Python: Subprocess call with wget - Scheme Missing
Try removing the quotes from the JIRA_URL. You don't need to use quotes to group arguments to subprocess.call, since they're already split into the list of arguments you pass in. FILTER_ID = 10000 USERNAME = 'myusername' PASSWORD = 'mypassword' # No extra quotes around the URL JIRA_URL = 'https://myjiraserver.com/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-excel-all-fields/%d/SearchRequest-%d.xls?tempMax=1000&os_username=%s&os_password=%s' %...
linux wget download tar.gz as html?
The HTML document you downloaded consists primarily of a bunch of links to mirrors hosting the actual file. Pick one of them and download the response....
wget how to use ganerated name instaed of page name when downolad zip file
Yes, it's there in the man pages too! Use the --content-disposition option....
WGET and HttpClient work but Jsoup doesn't work in java
You need Accept header. Try this: String encodedUrl = "http://xyo.net/iphone-app/instagram-RrkBUFE/"; Response res = Jsoup.connect(encodedUrl) .header("Accept-Language", "en") .ignoreHttpErrors(true) .ignoreContentType(true) .header("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8") .followRedirects(true) .timeout(10000) .method(Connection.Method.GET) .execute(); System.out.println(res.parse()); It works. Please also note that the site is trying to set cookies, you may need to handle them. Hope it will help....
Wget: Filenames without the query string
There is the -O option: wget -O file.html http://www.example.com/index.html?querystring so you can alter a little bit your script to pass to the -O argument the right file name....
wget|sudo fails in Ansible command
Quote from module documentation: It will not be processed through the shell, so variables like $HOME and operations like "<", ">", "|", and "&" will not work (use the shell module if you need these features) ...
How to force wget to not URL-encode?
So curl does not automatically URL-encode parameters in a GET request. This doesn't totally answer my question, but it does give me another option. This: curl 'http://www.foo.com/bar.cgi?param="p"' does the trick....
Cannot pipe wget HTTP header for grep processing
linux,shell,grep,wget,embedded-linux
After many tests I was able to track down what was causing that message to be displayed. The camera has Lighttpd installed, and in the lighttp.conf file found in /etc there was a tiny option that had been changed by the camera manufacturer. It is the access log, which tracks...
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '' (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING) [closed]
Missing a . after $link in this line: exec('echo '.$link.' > /tmp/wget-download-link.txt',$out); ...
Perl module LWP::Protocol::https is unavailable - looking for help writing a script which uses wget as an alternative
Please check if you have local::lib module installed. If you do - installing modules locally could be as simple as typing: perl -MCPAN -Mlocal::lib -e shell cpan> install LWP::WhatEver If you continue to install new modules this way, they will all be installed in ~/perl5 directory (in your home dir)....
Does executing wget via shell_exec on PHP allows me to close the browser readily without waiting for it to finish the download?
It's as simple as adding a & to the end of your command string, to run wget in the background, and not have PHP wait for the command to exit. However, you won't be able to get the output from the command, seeing as it might still be running when...
using wget to mirror a website with path and subfolder that have the same name
I figured it out! The problem was my assumption that /news/index.html was the URL that I needed. After closely reading the man page, I found that -E (--adjust-extension) solved my problem. This flag forces wget to apply the .html extension onto all of the HTML files that it downloads. Coupling...
wget not following the flashplayer download link
As @houssam already said, the given page is a html page that contains a javascript part setTimeout("location.href = 'https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.457/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz';", 2000); So if you were to dynamically download it, you would need to extract the new value of the location.href and set your wget to that. Otherwise just use the download...
download files from a url using wget
That url looks like it's pointing to the site that has the file, but not the file itself. To download the file, you need something like wget http://www.examplesite.com/subpage/yourfile.txt which would download the yourfile.txt However, if those charts are dynamically created via a server side script, such as chart generation based...
How to download file after form submit and 302 redirect using wget or curl
The site seems to require the Referer header: wget --post-file=cboe_form_data.txt \ --header='Referer: http://www.cboe.com/DelayedQuote/QuoteTableDownload.aspx' \ http://www.cboe.com/DelayedQuote/QuoteTableDownload.aspx With this command the "QuoteData.dat" GET request will feature the Referer header. Response code for that request is 200 and the CSV is included. When the Referer header isn't present the "QuoteData.dat" GET request returns...
how to use -o flag in wget with -i?
I ran a web search again and found http://superuser.com/questions/336669/downloading-multiple-files-and-specifying-output-filenames-with-wget Wget can't seem to do it but Curl can with -K flag, the file supplied can contain url and output name. See http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#-K If you are willing to use some shell scripting then http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/61132/how-do-i-use-wget-with-a-list-of-urls-and-their-corresponding-output-files has the answer....
Downloading Most Recent File On Server Via wget
If there is an index of all the files you could first download that and then parse it to find the most recent file. If that is not possible you could count backwards from the current time (use date +%M in addition to date +%H) and stop if wget was...
wget command working in linux but not working in windows
The problem could be in the escaping the '@' character. In linux shells, any character can be escaped, including characters that don't need escapement. For example, "echo \@" and "echo @" produce the same result: '@'. In Windows shell, "echo @" produces '@', but "echo \@" produces "\@". Just remove...
Parse wget log file in python
Here's how you can extract the data you want and store it in a list of tuples. The regexes I've used here aren't perfect, but they work ok with your sample data. I modified your original regex to use the more readable \d instead of the equivalent [0-9]. I've also...
how to use the python requests to fake a browser visit?
python,html,wget,python-requests
Provide a User-Agent header: import requests url = 'http://www.ichangtou.com/#company:data_000008.html' headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'} response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) print(response.content) FYI, here is a list of User-Agent strings for different browsers: List of all Browsers As a side note, there...
How to get extact page content in wget if error code is 404
python-3.x,curl,web-scraping,wget
wget has a switch called "--content-on-error": --content-on-error If this is set to on, wget will not skip the content when the server responds with a http status code that indicates error. So just add it to your code and you will have the "content" of the 404 pages too: import...
shell script wget to gives download links error
You can use the below command. cat list.txt | xargs wget -o logfile Where "list.txt" contains the list of the files to be downloaded like below. www.google.com www.yahoo.com www.facebook.com The log's will be stored in the file "logfile" which is specified after the -o option....
How to save wget or curl terminal output to file
The status information of wget is always printed to stderr (channel 2). So you can redirect that channel to a file: wget -O - "some file im downloading" >downloaded_file 2>wget_status_info_file Channel 1 (stdout) is redirected to the file downloaded_file and stderr to wget_status_info_file....
wget Google search (300 000 lookups)
bash,curl,google-api,wget,lynx
Google won't let you do this; it has a rather advanced set of heuristics to detect "non-human" usage. If you want to do something automated with Google, it kind of forces you to use their API. Other than distributing your queries over a very large set of clients (given the...
What is this mean? 'wget -qO- 127.0.0.1'
The dash after the O instructs output to go to standard output. The q option means the command should be "quiet" and not write to standard output. The two options together mean the instruction can be used nicely in a pipeline. As far as added 127.0.0.1 as the source of...
How to automatically move a fully downloaded file to a new directory
If you intend to move a file if the download is properly done then make a move or if it is not downloaded properly then no need of move, then you can use "LOGICAL AND" between the commands of wget and mv wget http://mysite.example.com/file1.tgz && mv file1.tgz /new_dest/ ...
Are you able to create clean URLs with Wget?
If I understand your question correctly, you're asking for what is the default behaviour of Wget. Wget will only add the extension to the local copy, if the --adjust-extension option has been passed to it. Quoting the man page for Wget: --adjust-extension If a file of type application/xhtml+xml or text/html...
Why is wget saving something when using parametrized url?
Most simply: wget --no-check-certificate -O /dev/null http://foo this will make wget save the file to /dev/null, effectively discarding it....
Is there an option to wget to force it to write the response even when it's erroneous?
This is the option: Parameter: --content-on-error, available from wget 1.14: http://superuser.com/a/648466...
wget to download new wildcard files and overwrite old ones
linux,cron,download,ubuntu-12.04,wget
You can specify the files to be downloaded one by one in a text file, and then pass that file name using option -i or --input-file. e.g. contents of list.txt: http://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/remote/files/file1.jpg http://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/remote/files/file2.jpg http://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/remote/files/file3.jpg .... then wget .... --input-file list.txt Alternatively, If all your *.jpg files are linked from a particular...
Download Website with formatting using Wget
php,batch-file,formatting,download,wget
Maybe you have LF (0x0a) terminated lines in your .txt file. Notepad handles CRLF (0x0d 0x0a) terminated lines. If you are using gnuwin32, you can use conv to change the line endings in your file....
Using Wget To Download File Every Five Minutes
That 5 can be any number: for n in {0..1440..5}; do date -u --date="$n minutes ago"; done ...
Unable to establish SSL connection upon wget on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
... right now it happens only to the website I'm testing. I can't post it here because it's confidential. Then I guess it is one of the sites which is incompatible with TLS1.2. The openssl as used in 12.04 does not use TLS1.2 on the client side while with...
wget not displaying all website data
That value appears to be filled in via javascript (though I can't find the request at a quick glance). If that's the case then you cannot get it with something like wget or curl in this way. You would need to find the specific request and send that. Given the...
Batch script for wget
The Windows equivalent to that sort of for loop is for /L. Syntax is for /L %%I in (start,step,finish) do (stuff) See help for in a console window for more info. Also, Windows batch variables are evaluated inline. No need to break out of your quotes. for /L %%I in...
centos use wget download file(https) , available on the server ,but stopped in local virtual machine?
Looks like dns problem. Try wget 'http://93.184.220.20/806614/photos/photos.500px.net/90241693/795b7a5900db5905631ebe7ff5aa141a5e0f59ce/3.jpg?v=6' ...
WGET - HTTPS vs HTTP = HTTPS Slower
linux,ssl,curl,raspberry-pi,wget
After some tests and discussion with wget developers, I came to the conclusion that this was due to the gnutls library. If wget is compiled with openssl instead, the behaviour is much more like curl.
Cannot to download a file using wget
The shell - not wget - interprets & as a special character, instructing to run a program in the background. To avoid that, simply put the whole URL in quotes, like this: $ wget 'http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_0p25.pl?file=gfs.t06z.pgrb2.0p25.f000&all_lev=on&all_var=on&subregion=&leftlon=22&rightlon=42&toplat=53&bottomlat=45&dir=/gfs.2015070506' ...
Downloading a tarball from github without curl
After beating my head on various combination of wget flags involving either: --post-data; or --user= with and without --pasword= as well as vice versa; or --header="Authorization: token <token>" I looked back at the documentation and found that there are alternative endpoints in releases API. Looks like firstly I just cannot...
wget directory-prefix not working, downloads to ftp host directory
wget defaults to create per-host directories when used in recursive mode. To disable you need to specify the --no-host-directories (-nH) option.
wget jpg from url list keeping same structure
I think simple shell loop with a bit of string processing should work for you: while read line; do line2=${line%/*} # removing filename line3=${line2#*//} # removing "http://" path=${line3#*/} # removing "domain.com/" mkdir -p $path wget -P$path $line done <file.txt (SO's editor mis-interprets # in the expression and colors the rest...
How to download a web directory when authentication is required?
linux,wget,fetch,ubuntu-14.04,web-folders
Sounds like you are using basic auth. You can pass this to wget with the following syntax: wget http://user:[email protected]/.... ...
Windows bat file: Download & Compare Content
@echo off for /f "delims=" %%a in (output.txt) do echo("%%a" should show you precisely what is contained in the file (assuming it is one line - this will show all non-empty lines if there's more than one...) but "contained in quotes". This string must exactly match the string against which...
disable crontab auto generate file in home directory
Those files are what you downloaded using that wget command. wget queries a url and saves the response as a file. You asked it to. If, as typical for usage within a cron job, you are not interested in the response you must tell the system to ignore the response,...
Bash, wget remove comma from output filename
This should work: url="$line" filename="${url##*/}" filename="${filename//,/}" wget -P /home/img/ "$url" -O "$filename" Using -N and -O both will throw a warning message. wget manual says: -N (for timestamp-checking) is not supported in combination with -O: since file is always newly created, it will always have a very new timestamp. So,...
UNIX loop through list of url and save using wget
#!/bin/bash for base in CA30 CA1-3; do # get the $base files and put into folder for $base wget -PO "https://www.bea.gov/regional/zip/${base}.zip" mkdir -p in/${base} unzip O/${base}.zip -d in/${base} done I have removed sudo - there's no reason to perform unprivileged operations with superuser privileges. If you can write into a...
wget ssl alert handshake failure
It works from here with same OpenSSL version, but a newer version of wget (1.15). Looking at the Changelog there is the following significant change regarding your problem: 1.14: Add support for TLS Server Name Indication. Note that this site does not require SNI. But www.coursera.org requires it. And if...
Shell script to download all webpages?
for x in {100..200}; do wget "http://example.com/$x" done ...
How to wget and write filename based on server last modified date?
Invoking wget with the -O option causes all the files downloaded to be concatenated into a single output file, with no indication as to where each individual file starts. Since there will be more than one downloaded file in the snapshot archive, and presumably they have different modified dates, it...
Downloading similar files from a site using wget
You can use -A flag with wget ‘-A acclist --accept acclist’ wget --no-parent -r -l 1 -A *.cpp http://url/loc/ ...
download files using bash script using wget
Instead of wget $url Try wget "${url}${i}" ...
Using read -p in a bash script that was executed from pipe
The tty solution works. Test it with this code, for example: $ date | { read -p "Echo date? " r </dev/tty ; [ "$r" = "y" ] && cat || echo OK ; } Echo date? y Sat Apr 12 10:51:16 PDT 2014 $ date | { read -p...
Using crontab to call wget every 5 minutes
use the console component make it run your hello.php script call the command in your crontab bash /your/dir/app/console yourcommand or even simpler run php your/dir/hello.php...
How to avoid hanging wget in bash
I assume that it hangs because you have a number of HTTP requests being sent to a single host in a script. The host in question doesn't like that too much and it starts to block requests from your IP address. A simple workaround would be to put a sleep...
ajax calls not showing any content in browser
javascript,jquery,python,ajax,wget
If you look at the request in firebug for https://myspace.com/ajax/artistspage?chartType=heavyrotation&genreId=1002532&page=0 when you try to go to it manually in the browser you will notice that it gets a 401 Unauthorized response. This is because the request headers are set in a special way when being requested from the official myspace...
How to download a file from owncloud with curl, wget
Something like below worked for me. wget --no-check-certificate "http://owncloud.example.com/public.php?service=files&t=par7fec5377a27f19654cd0e7623d883&download&path=//file.tar.gz" Note double quotes around download link. URL was "copied download link" from downloads in chrome....
Fortran read data with different length
one approach is to read each line as a string, check for the end and process accordingly: character*1000 wholeline do while( .true. ) read(33,'(a)')wholeline if ( index(wholeline,'</PRE>' ).ne.0 )exit read(wholeline,*)pres,height,tmp,tmp,dew ... enddo You can also perhaps more simply just read and exit on an error.. do while( .true. ) read(33,*,err=100)pres,height,tmp,tmp,dew...