Comments on: Django Book Dump

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:32:53 +0000

Thanks for this – worked perfectly!

For those that don’t know, copy/paste the above script into a file called (for example) dumpbook.sh

Place dumpbook.sh in a convenient directory – this directory will become the parent directory of the book, as the script creates a directory called ‘django_book’ in the same directory as the script

Next, chmod +x dumpbook.sh

Then finally, ./dumpbook.sh

The script will run and download the book into ./django_book/

Navigate to ./django_book/index.html with your browser (using the local file system) and enjoy!

- Dave

By: Buckley

Buckley — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:38:22 +0000

The version of sed installed on OSX (at least the version for Snow Leopard), does not support the syntax above (I was receiving error messages for ‘extra characters at the end of d command’). To get around this OSX users should use gsed instead of sed.

To install gsed via macports use the following command: ’sudo port install gsed’

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:40:52 +0000

I also found this via a google search and I must say it works splendid! Train rides will be so much more fun/educating :D
For OSX (Leopard) users: SEQ isn’t included in os x, so you need to get “gseq” from the “coreutils” package at macports.
(sudo port install coreutils)
After this, you can either change all seq’s to gseq, or make a symbolic link like this: sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/gseq /opt/local/bin/seq

By: Michael J.

Michael J. — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:36:48 +0000

@Roberto – cool. It’s probably that the shell I was using when I wrote the script has slightly different quoting rules than the shell you’re using. If you write up a fix for that last line that works in your shell, post it here… and also the shell you’re using (dash? bash?) that’s likely also the reason the index page links are broken for you.

cheers

By: Roberto Nerici

Roberto Nerici — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:49:50 +0000

Just came across this as a result of a search, looking for a way to download the book so I could look at it when offline.

When I try it, the last step bombs out with a “Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string”, but apart from the index page not taking me striaght to the chapter (yeah, I’m using Firefox), it works fine.

So, thanks :-)

Roberto/.