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An Extremely Small Bash Script to Grab the Current Headline for Today in Computer History.
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cowsay.sh
echo "Today in Computer History:\n" > ~/cowsay.txt;
curl -s -k https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/ | awk -F: '/chm-tdih-entry-title/ {gsub(/^[ \t]+/,"\n",$0); print; exit}' | sed -e 's/<[^>][^>]*>//g' -e '/^ -e *$/d' >> ~/cowsay.txt;
echo https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/ >> ~/cowsay.txt;
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