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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 "]" |
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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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