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Commands tagged comic

Terminal - Commands tagged comic - 15 results

eog `curl -s http://xkcd.com/ | sed -n 's/<h3>Image URL.*: $.*$<\/h3>/\1/p'`

2010-08-31 13:23:21

User: bluesman

Functions: sed

Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

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xdg-open http://xkcd.com/

2010-08-25 19:14:11

User: unixmonkey8024

Tags: bash curl function browser xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

KISS

To get a random xkcd comic:

xdg-open http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/

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xkcd() { wget -qO- http://xkcd.com/ | sed -n 's#^<img src="$http://imgs.[^"]\+$"\s\+title="$.\+\?$"\salt.\+$#eog "\1"\necho '"'\2'#p" | bash ; }

2010-08-25 15:44:31

User: John_W

Functions: bash sed wget

Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

This function displays the latest comic from xkcd.com. One of the best things about xkcd is the title text when you hover over the comic, so this function also displays that after you close the comic.

To get a random xkcd comic use the following:

xkcdrandom() { wget -qO- http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random | sed -n 's#^<img src="\(http://imgs.[^"]\+\)"\s\+title="\(.\+\?\)"\salt.\+$#eog "\1"\necho '"'\2'#p" | bash; }

These are just a bit shorter than the ones eigthmillion wrote, however his version didn't work as expected on my laptop for some reason (I got the title-tag first), so these build a command which is executed by bash.

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eog `curl 'http://xkcd.com/' | awk -F "ng): |</h" '/embedding/{print $2}'`

2010-08-25 14:04:30

User: dog

Functions: awk

Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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Shorter version with curl and awk

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2010-08-24 22:21:51

User: hunterm

Functions: grep sed

Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

Output the html from xkcd's index.html, filter out the html tags, and then view it in gwenview.

(echo "plot '-' with lines"; for x in $(seq 1 100); do curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=$(echo $x bottles of beer on the wall|sed 's/ /%20/g')"|sed 's/.*"estimatedResultCount":"$[^"]*$".*/\1\n/';done)|gnuplot -persist

2010-03-17 21:04:36

User: matthewbauer

Functions: echo sed seq

Tags: google xkcd comic results

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x bottles of beer on the wall graph

Will create a graph of the results for "x bottles of beer on the wall".

Requires Gnuplot.

Inspired by an xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/715/

For sample output see: http://tr.im/xbottlesofbeer

echo alias xkcd="gwenview `w3m -dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png | awk '{print $5}'` 2> /dev/null" >> .bashrc

2010-01-30 20:38:16

User: GinoMan2440

Functions: alias echo

Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

Add an alias to your .bashrc that allows you to issue the command xkcd to view (with gwenview) the newest xkcd comic... I know there are thousands of them out there but this one is at least replete with installer and also uses a more concise syntax... plus, gwenview shows you the downloading progress as it downloads the comic and gives you a more full featured viewing experience.

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feh `lynx --dump http://xkcd.com/| grep png`

2010-01-30 12:47:26

User: bubo

Functions: grep

Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

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wget -q http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random/ -O-| sed -n '/<img src="http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics/{s/.*$http:.*$" t.*/\1/;p}' | awk '{system ("wget -q " $1 " -O- | display -title $(basename " $1") -write /tmp/$(basename " $1")");}'

2009-12-09 13:41:25

User: laugg

Functions: awk sed wget

Tags: sed awk wget comic

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View a random xkcd comic

Only need to install Image Magick package.

Display a xkcd comic with its title and save it in /tmp directory

If you prefer to view the newest xkcd, use this command:

wget -q http://xkcd.com/ -O-| sed -n '/<img src="http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics/{s/.*\(http:.*\)" t.*/\1/;p}' | awk '{system ("wget -q " $1 " -O- | display -title $(basename " $1") -write /tmp/$(basename " $1")");}'

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for /L %%x in (1,1,16) do mkdir %%x & curl -R -e http://www.kirtu.com -o %%x/#1.jpg http://www.kirtu.com/toon/content/sb%x/english/sb%x_en_[001-070].jpg

2009-12-08 15:01:16

User: MyTechieself

Functions: mkdir

Tags: windows curl dos comic winxp savitabhabhi

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Use curl on Windows to bulk-download the Savitabhabhi Comic Strip (for Adults)

Bulk downloads the comic strip JPG files for the adult cartoon Savitabhabhi, storing each set in it's own folder. Requires manual removal of "non-image" files that maybe created because each series may differ in length. The command can be easily adapted for UNIX flavours. You need to have cURL in your path.

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display http://dilbert.com$(curl -s dilbert.com|grep -Po '"\K/dyn/str_strip(/0+){4}/.*strip.[^\.]*\.gif')

2009-12-05 19:35:27

User: wizel

Functions: grep

Tags: curl display comic

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Display Dilbert strip of the day

Requires display.

Corrected version thanks to sputnick and eightmillion user.

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wget `lynx --dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png`

2009-12-03 23:10:22

User: metalx1000

Functions: grep wget

Tags: bash wget lynx curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

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curl -s 'xkcd.com' | awk -F\" '/^<img/{printf("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<xkcd>\n<item>\n <title>%s</title>\n <comment>%s</comment>\n <image>%s</image>\n</item>\n</xkcd>\n", $6, $4, $2)}'

2009-12-03 19:49:37

User: putnamhill

Functions: awk

Tags: awk curl xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

I wasn't sure how to display the image, so I thought I'd try xml for a different twist.

lynx --dump --source http://www.xkcd.com | grep `lynx --dump http://www.xkcd.com | egrep '(png|jpg)'` | grep title | cut -d = -f2,3 | cut -d '"' -f2,4 | sed -e 's/"/|/g' | awk -F"|" ' { system("display " $1);system("echo "$2); } '

2009-12-03 18:53:57

User: solarislackware

Functions: awk cut egrep grep

Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

Same thing just a different way to get there. You will need lynx

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xkcd(){ wget -qO- http://xkcd.com/|tee >(feh $(grep -Po '(?<=")http://imgs[^/]+/comics/[^"]+\.\w{3}'))|grep -Po '(?<=(\w{3})" title=").*(?=" alt)';}

2009-11-27 09:11:47

User: eightmillion

Functions: grep tee wget

Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

To get a random xkcd comic, I also use the following:

xkcdrandom(){ wget -qO- dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random|tee >(feh $(grep -Po '(?<=")http://imgs[^/]+/comics/[^"]+\.\w{3}'))|grep -Po '(?<=(\w{3})" title=").*(?=" alt)';}

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