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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on How to use shell functions to fetch information online ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[oops, indeed :-)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hi Wolson,you're right, that remained from the temp version I use for testing (because the script I actually use is longer and also does stuff that wasn't really relevant here). Thanks for the correction]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mfioretti]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:12:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[yes, that's the point]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I normally tend to use w3m instead of fetch in scripts like these for the reasons that brister explained, plus the fact that (at least on some servers I help manage) I have to install and use it anyway for remote administration via webmin]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:11:08 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I recently wrote a little widget as well]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It goes out to some site, finds the public ip address of the company who's location you happen to be working for, at the time, and gives you their public ip. But, I really dig the word definition search.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[todd_dsm]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:17:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ah, I see]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I tend to think in terms of feeds, where you want the markup because it's semantic.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sterling "chip" Camden]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:01:23 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[fetch isn't that useful]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Using 'fetch' would leave you with the raw html which you would then have to parse. That would be more reliable (probably), but a lot more complicated. w3m gives you the plain text which is a lot simpler.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[brister@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:02:23 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Another optimization]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On FreeBSD at least, you can use 'fetch' instead of w3m's dump.  Why spin up a whole browser if you aren't going to use most of it?  I don't know if fetch is available on all *nix platforms, though.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sterling "chip" Camden]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:16:47 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[oops]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[thanks, handy - but dictionary example has 'weird' hardwired instead of arg 1, ${1}]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wolsonjr@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:52:26 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yep]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... piping or using process output as an argument when piping isn't adequate/possible like so:grep 'pattern' &amp;lt;(shell command)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[shoggothe]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:44:20 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why use a tmp file?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... instead of just piping it?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sterling "chip" Camden]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:20:30 -0800</pubDate>
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