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How to send pause command via a bash script?

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 6:00 am
by habskilla
Not a sabnzbd question but a linux question.

If i enter this, http://my url/sabnzbd/api?mode=pause, into a browser it will pause sabnzbd. 

The question I have is how can I do the pause command from a bash script?

I've tried wget -q http://my url/sabnzbd/api?mode=pause but that just creates a file called "api?mode=pause"

Re: How to send pause command via a bash script?

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 7:32 am
by shypike
How about:

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wget -q --delete-after "http://host:port/sabnzbd/api?mode=pause"
Without the quotes, bash will think that the '?' is a wild-card.

Re: How to send pause command via a bash script?

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 3:09 pm
by habskilla
doesn't work  :-\

Re: How to send pause command via a bash script?

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 3:16 pm
by rAf
try this :

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curl "http://host:port/sabnzbd/api?mode=pause"

Re: How to send pause command via a bash script?

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 3:41 pm
by shypike
habskilla wrote: doesn't work  :-\
I'm sorry, but the wget works fine on my Ubuntu-8.04 server box.
(and curl too).

Re: How to send pause command via a bash script?

Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 8:38 am
by habskilla
Found the solution.  The reason it wasn't working was because of lack of authorization.  From the wiki advanced options I found the solution.

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wget -q --delete-after "http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/api?mode=resume&ma_username=user&ma_password=password"

Re: How to send pause command via a bash script?

Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 10:01 am
by shypike
OK, I had not thought of the username/pw either, since it's optional.