maebmij's blog » linux http://maebmij.org/blog stuff having to do with James Ballantine Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:42:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Read xkcd titles from the command line http://maebmij.org/blog/2009/05/11/read-xkcd-titles-from-the-command-line/ http://maebmij.org/blog/2009/05/11/read-xkcd-titles-from-the-command-line/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 10:43:27 +0000 James http://maebmij.org/blog/?p=171 Does your mobile browser have difficulty reading the ‘title’ attribute on xkcd strips? Is this a problem for you? Does your mobile device have command-line access to a unix-like system? If so, you may find the following title-extracting script useful. Call without arguments for the latest strip, or supply the strip number as an argument:

#!/bin/bash

if [ $1 ]; then
    URLPATH=$1/
fi

curl -s http://www.xkcd.com/$URLPATH |grep "img.*title" \
|sed 's/.* title="\([^"]*\).*/\1/'
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