Display Dilbert strip of the day

display http://dilbert.com$(curl -s dilbert.com|grep -Po '"\K/dyn/str_strip(/0+){4}/.*strip.[^\.]*\.gif')
Requires display. Corrected version thanks to sputnick and eightmillion user.

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By: wizel
2009-12-05 19:35:27
grep curl display comic
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Hi. Nice one. Can you explain the start of the perl regexp ? : (?<=") And at the end, the ( ) are not needed IMHO. Cheers, sputnick.
sputnick · 835 weeks and 1 day ago
thanks sightmillion, your're right. I was wondering what the Dilber site used to tag/identify the strip. So I opted for the "safest" approach, but thing your proposal works OK.
wizel · 835 weeks and 1 day ago
sputnick, I've corrected with you version and added your name in the comments. If you don't feel OK, pls let me know.
wizel · 835 weeks ago

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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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