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Commands tagged xmlstarlet

Terminal - Commands tagged xmlstarlet - 8 results

curl -su username:passwd https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom | xmlstarlet sel -N x="http://purl.org/atom/ns#" -t -m //x:entry -v 'concat(position(), ":", x:title)' -n

2012-05-05 14:34:55

User: kev

Tags: curl xmlstarlet gmail

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print unread gmail message

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xmlstarlet sel -t -v "/path/to/element" file.xml

2011-12-21 21:49:56

User: djangofan

Tags: xmlstarlet

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extract element of xml

Prints the value of a XML node rather than the entire node.

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xmlstarlet sel -t -c "/path/to/element" file.xml

2011-12-19 06:20:46

User: kev

Tags: xmlstarlet

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extract element of xml

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xml fo -e utf-8 file.xml | xml esc

2011-11-08 07:51:40

User: kev

Tags: xmlstarlet

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fomat/encode/escape xml

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atomtitles () { curl --silent $1 | xmlstarlet sel -N atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" -t -m /atom:feed/atom:entry -v atom:title -n}

2010-12-15 11:03:31

User: Seebi

Tags: curl xml xmlstarlet atom feed

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Get the headlines of an atom feed

this simply curls the feed and runs a xpath query on it ...

curl -L -s `curl -s [http://podcast.com/show.rss]` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"

2010-07-31 00:17:47

User: denzuko

Functions: head ssh

Tags: streaming curl mp3 xml xmlstarlet rss mpg321 podcast xpath xquery

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Play a podcast via XPath and mpg123

Gets the latest podcast show from from your favorite Podcast. Uses curl and xmlstarlet.

Make sure you change out the items between brackets.

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curl -L -s `curl -s http://www.2600.com/oth-broadband.xml` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"

2010-07-30 23:20:50

User: denzuko

Functions: head ssh

Tags: ssh streaming curl mp3 http radio xml xmlstarlet ssh tunnel mpg321 podcast xpath xquery 2600

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Play 2600 off the hook over ssh

Ever wanted to stream your favorite podcast across the network, well now you can.

This command will parse the iTunes enabled podcast and stream the latest episode across the network through ssh encryption.

wget -qO - http://www.commandlinefu.com/feed/tenup | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -o '<x>' -n -t -m rss/channel/item -o '<y>' -n -v description -o '</y>' -n -t -o '</x>' | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m x/y -v code -n

2009-08-14 02:44:00

User: fsilveira

Functions: wget

Tags: commandlinefu xmlstarlet rss

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print latest (top 10, top 3 or *) commandlinefu.com commands

This lengthy cryptic line will print the latest top 10 commandlinefu.com posts without their summaries. To print also their respective summaries use the following (even bigger) command line:

wget -qO - http://www.commandlinefu.com/feed/tenup | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -o '<doc>' -n -t -m rss/channel/item -o '<item>' -n -o '<title>' -v title -o '</title>' -n -o '<description>' -v description -o '</description>' -n -o '</item>' -n -t -o '</doc>' | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m doc/item -v description/code -n -v title -n -n

It is recommended to include this line into a shell script to be easily run, as I do myself. You could also use the following URLs to browse the top 3 commands:

wget -qO - http://www.commandlinefu.com/feed/threeup | xmlstarlet ...

.. or all others:

wget -qO - http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Command-line-fu | xmlstarlet ...

PS: You need to install "xmlstarlet" to run it. It is found in Debian APT repositories (apt-get install xmlstarlet) or under the http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/ URL.