All, The following script can be used to check for dead or otherwise problematic HTTP URLs in the scanModem utility. -- Nick Zhuravlev www.auriga.com ============================================ #!/bin/bash if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then echo "Usage: $0 path_to_scanModem" exit 1 fi HTTP_URLS=$(awk '{ if (match($0,/(http[^[:space:],]+)/, url)) { printf "%s\n", url[0]; } }' $1 | sort -u) for i in $HTTP_URLS; do echo === $i ===; wget -T 7 --tries=1 --spider --force-html $i 2>&1 \ | egrep '(ERROR 404|failed|timed out)'; done | tee /tmp/full.log