Gets a random Futurama quote from /.

• Get Futurama quotations from slashdot.org servers

  slashdot.org webserver adds an X-Bender or X-Fry HTTP header to every response! Show Sample Output

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  Bender: Emotions are dumb and should be hated.

  
  

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  echo -e "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\nHost: slashdot.org\n\n" | nc slashdot.org 80 | egrep "Bender|Fry" | sed "s/X-//"
  ricardoarguello · 2009-07-30 19:15:07 0
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• Get Futurama quotations from slashdot.org servers

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  curl -Is slashdot.org | sed -n '5p' | sed 's/^X-//'
  noqqe · 2010-09-26 12:09:35 0
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  lynx -head -dump http://slashdot.org|egrep 'Bender|Fry'|sed 's/X-//'
  linuxrawkstar · 2009-07-30 19:53:16 0
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  I'm pretty sure everyone has curl and sed, but not everyone has lynx. Show Sample Output

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  Fry: No, no, I was just picking my nose.

  
  

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  curl -sI http://slashdot.org/ | sed -nr 's/X-(Bender|Fry)(.*)/\1\2/p'
  goodevilgenius · 2009-07-31 19:55:17 0
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  curl -Is slashdot.org | sed -ne '/^X-[FBL]/s/^X-//p'
  arcege · 2009-09-06 03:17:19 0
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Sweet! I never knew those nuggets were buried in the header like that.

cbetts · 869 weeks and 1 day ago

Great command - now added as to my .bashrc startup commands instead of a random reading of fortune

root · 869 weeks and 1 day ago

the cut command breaks quotes with a dash in them. maybe something like curl -Is slashdot.org | egrep '^X-(F|B|L)' | sed 's/^..//'

unixmonkey743 · 869 weeks ago

That is absolutely awesome.

Anonecho · 868 weeks and 6 days ago

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

lucainvernizzi · 868 weeks and 5 days ago

ridiculous one liner to print mostly unique quotes form the slashdot header: 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.

septone · 799 weeks and 6 days ago

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