[hunterm@saturn ~ )> gwenview `wget -O - http://xkcd.com/ | grep 'png' | grep '<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/' | sed s/title=\".*//g | sed 's/.png\"/.png/g' | sed 's/<img src=\"//g'` --2010-08-24 18:20:34-- http://xkcd.com/ Resolving xkcd.com... 72.26.203.99 Connecting to xkcd.com|72.26.203.99|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 7654 (7.5K) [text/html] Saving to: ?STDOUT? 100%[=======================================================================================================================>] 7,654 --.-K/s in 0.08s 2010-08-24 18:20:34 (99.0 KB/s) - written to stdout [7654/7654] Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) gwenview(13369)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "edit_redo" with KXMLGUIFactory! gwenview(13369)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "edit_undo" with KXMLGUIFactory! gwenview(13369)/kio (KIOJob) KIO::TransferJob::slotMimetype: mimetype() emitted again, or after sending first data!; job URL = KUrl("http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/i_dont_want_directions.png") gwenview(13369)/kdecore (services) KMimeTypeFactory::parseMagic: Now parsing "/usr/share/mime/magic" gwenview(13369)/kdecore (services) KMimeTypeFactory::parseMagic: Now parsing "/home/hunterm/.local/share/mime/magic" gwenview(13369)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
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, 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)';}
I wasn't sure how to display the image, so I thought I'd try xml for a different twist. Show Sample Output
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.
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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