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BBC news in the terminal
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| curl -s http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml?edition=uk | grep '<description>' | cut -f3 -d "[" | cut -f1 -d "]" |
Alternatively, have five news stories and no title with this:
curl -s http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml?edition=uk | grep '<description>' | cut -f3 -d "[" | cut -f1 -d "]" | head -6 | tail -5
And why not make it more readable, with awk?
curl -s http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml?edition=uk | grep '<description>' | cut -f3 -d "[" | cut -f1 -d "]" | head -6 | tail -5 | awk 'NR == 1 {print ""}; sub(/^/, " "); {print ""}'
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Hello, thanks for writing this! Great to see a way to get the news using the terminal.
I've made a slight edit, so that it returns the first five lines (Title and four news stories)
curl -s http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml?edition=uk | grep '<description>' | cut -f3 -d "[" | cut -f1 -d "]" | head -5Thanks again!