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Created January 30, 2011 02:56
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Random commit message generator
#! /bin/sh
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# whatthecommit - Random commit message generator
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# Show random commit message from http://whatthecommit.com/.
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# Seungwon Jeong <[email protected]>
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# Copyright 2011 by Seungwon Jeong
curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | perl -p0e '($_)=m{<p>(.+?)</p>}s'
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sepehr commented Nov 2, 2014

curl -L -s http://whatthecommit.com/ | grep -A 1 "\"c" | tail -1 | sed 's/<p>//'

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curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt

But you might want mind when it returns " sudo rm -rf / pawned!"...

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