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iawk is the best
iJanuary 23rd, 2018
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iI have a section on this phlog called "Current Books" [0]. That is
ithe output of a cgi script that queries my Goodreads reading list
ivia RSS, selects the relevant data, formats and displays it.
i
iThis is the heart of that script. It's 1 line of code.
i
i(Fake linebreaks for easy reading)
i
icurl -s "<RSS FEED>" |
i /usr/pkg/bin/xml sel
i -t
i -m "/rss/channel/item"
i -v "title"
i -o "^"
i -v "author_name"
i -o "^"
i -v "book/num_pages" -n |
i
i awk 'BEGIN {
i FS="^";
i books="\n";
i print "Books I am currently reading:"
i }
i
i $3 ~ /[0-9]+/ {
i pages+=$3;
i books=(books $1 "\n by " $2 "\n")
i }
i
i END {
i print "(" pages " pages left to read)\n", books
i }' |
i
i fold -s -w 66 >
i "/sdf/arpa/tz/t/tomasino/gopher/reading/currentbooks.txt"
i
iI love awk and I don't get to use it nearly enough.
i
TEXT [0] Currently Reading