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Shell script / one-liner to parse and display an rss feed. May require tweaking for RSS feeds without newlines or where <title> and <description> are on separate lines to their text.
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#!/bin/sh | |
#Megasaturnv 2017-07-28 | |
#Url of the RSS feed | |
RSS_URL="" | |
##Commented version: | |
#Download the rss feed | |
curl --silent "$RSS_URL" | \ | |
#Only match lines with 'title>' or 'description>' | |
grep -E '(title>|description>)' | \ | |
#Remove the first 3 lines | |
tail -n +4 | \ | |
#Other methods which use sed instead of tail | |
#sed -n '4,$p' | \ | |
#sed -e '1,3d' | \ | |
#Remove all leading whitespace from each line (spaces and tabs) | |
sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | \ | |
#Remove all title and description tags. '<description>' is replaced with ' ' to indent it | |
sed -e 's/<title>//' -e 's/<\/title>//' -e 's/<description>/ /' -e 's/<\/description>//' | |
############################### | |
##Command all on one line: | |
curl --silent "$RSS_URL" | grep -E '(title>|description>)' | tail -n +4 | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed -e 's/<title>//' -e 's/<\/title>//' -e 's/<description>/ /' -e 's/<\/description>//' |
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