slashdot.org webserver adds an X-Bender or X-Fry HTTP header to every response! Show Sample Output
I'm pretty sure everyone has curl and sed, but not everyone has lynx. Show Sample Output
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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fortune
if [ -x "$(which fortune)" ] && [ $RANDOM -ge $((2 * $RANDOM )) ]; then
fortune
else
curl -Is slashdot.org | egrep '^X-(F|B|L)' | cut -d \- -f 2 #futurama
fi
if [ -x "$(which fortune)" ] && [ $RANDOM -ge $((2 * $RANDOM )) ]; then
fortune
echo
else
curl -sI http://slashdot.org/ | sed -nr 's/X-(Bender|Fry):\ (.*)/\2\n\t$
fi
if [ -x "$(which fortune)" ] && [ $RANDOM -ge $((2 * $RANDOM )) ]; then
fortune
echo
else
curl -sI http://slashdot.org/ | sed -nr 's/X-(Bender|Fry):\ (.*)/\2\n\t-\1\n/p'
fi
lastline=xxx; while true ; do line=$(curl -Is slashdot.org | egrep '^X-(F|B|L)' | cut -d \- -f 2-) ; if [ `echo $lastline | grep -c $line" ` -lt 1 ] ; then echo $line ; lastline="$line" ; fi ; sleep $(expr $RANDOM / 1500) ; done | tee slashdot-lovesfuturama.log
"the cut command breaks quotes with a dash in them." changing: cut -d \- -f 2 to: cut -d \- -f 2- also fixes that.