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Speaking Twitter in Bash
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| curl http://twitter.com/search.json?q=%23burningriverdevs | grep -Po '"text":.*?[^\\]",' | sed -e 's/\"text\"://g' | sed -e 's/@burningriverdev//g' | sed -e 's/#burningriverdevs/burning\ river\ devs/g'| sed -e 's/RT\ ://g' | sed -e 's/\\\u201C//g' | say |
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You can make this perform much better by only spawning one sed process and avoiding opening all those pipes. Unix can be clean too! :)
sed -e 's/one/1/' -e 's/two/2/' -e 's/three/3/'
instead of
sed -e 's/one/1/' | sed -e 's/two/2/' | sed -e 's/three/3/'