Can't set parameter to lynx properly

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

My intention is to go through list of addresses and call google geocode api for each of them. I am using lynx for this, but somehow I can't supply the parameters to it in a proper way.

To show that my parameters are OK I just hardcoded one address in my script and put it in my input file, and the hardcoded call runs just fine:

#!/bin/ksh
rqst1='http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?&address='
rqst2=' CA, USA&sensor=false'
INPF=${1:-addr_list}
while read addr; do
set -x
        lynx -dump "'""$rqst1""$addr""$rqst2""'"
        lynx -dump 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?&address=10925 RAILROAD ST&sensor=false'
done < $INPF

 $ cat addr_list
 10925 RAILROAD ST

I set -x to show how my parameters look and I don't see any fault on my side, yet lynx is not happy, here is the results:

 + lynx -dump 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?&address=10925 RAILROAD ST CA, USA&sensor=false'
 Alert!: Unsupported URL scheme!
 lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
      Exiting...
+ lynx -dump http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?&address=10925 RAILROAD ST&sensor=false
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GeocodeResponse>
 <status>OK</status>
 <result>
 ... etc...

Please point me into right direction here.

2

Remove the single quotes.

1 Like
3

Thank you, worked.