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iawk is the best |
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iJanuary 23rd, 2018 |
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iI have a section on this phlog called "Current Books" [0]. That is |
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ithe output of a cgi script that queries my Goodreads reading list |
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ivia RSS, selects the relevant data, formats and displays it. |
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iThis is the heart of that script. It's 1 line of code. |
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i(Fake linebreaks for easy reading) |
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i |
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icurl -s "<RSS FEED>" | |
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i /usr/pkg/bin/xml sel |
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i -t |
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i -m "/rss/channel/item" |
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i -v "title" |
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i -o "^" |
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i -v "author_name" |
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i -o "^" |
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i -v "book/num_pages" -n | |
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i |
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i awk 'BEGIN { |
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i FS="^"; |
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i books="\n"; |
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i print "Books I am currently reading:" |
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i } |
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i $3 ~ /[0-9]+/ { |
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i pages+=$3; |
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i books=(books $1 "\n by " $2 "\n") |
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i } |
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i END { |
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i print "(" pages " pages left to read)\n", books |
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i }' | |
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i fold -s -w 66 > |
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i "/sdf/arpa/tz/t/tomasino/gopher/reading/currentbooks.txt" |
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iI love awk and I don't get to use it nearly enough. |
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[0] Currently Reading |
