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johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2009-01-07

Posts: 3,265

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Daily Dilbert

This is another one from commandlinefu, but it's been quite funny of late so I thought I'd share it with you...

First, you need to install imagemagick and curl from the repositories if you haven't already got them, then put this in your autostart.sh:

(sleep 8; display -title 'Dilbert' http://dilbert.com$(curl -s dilbert.com|grep -Po '"\K/dyn/str_strip(/0+){4}/.*strip.[^\.]*\.gif') ) &

You'll get the cartoon on your desktop. Change the sleep number to taste, or start it some other way - a launcher, or a cron job...

Here's a variant I hacked together for Doonesbury:

( sleep 8; display -resize 700x -title 'Doonesbury' $(curl -s http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html | grep -Eow -m 1 'http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/[0-9]{4}/db[0-9]{6}\.gif') ) &

It was a bit small for me, so the "resize" blows it up a bit.

Both of these are ongoing stories, so it takes a couple of days to catch up.

Edit (2011/11/14): See below for code that works now.

Last edited by johnraff (2011-11-14 12:07:14)

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mcarni

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Registered: 2009-02-10

Posts: 131

Re: Daily Dilbert

very very nice

thanks

M

johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2009-01-07

Posts: 3,265

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Re: Daily Dilbert

Site code changes, new versions:

display -geometry 700x500 -title 'Dilbert' http://dilbert.com$(curl -s dilbert.com/strips|grep -o -m 1 '/dyn/str_strip.*strip\.print\.gif') &
display -geometry 800x800 -title 'Doonesbury' $(curl -s http://www.doonesbury.com | grep -Eow -m 1 'http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/[[:alnum:]]{32}') &

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cbdxs

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From: Capital Wasteland

Registered: 2011-08-03

Posts: 1,898

Re: Daily Dilbert

I just have the Opera web browser installed which has Dilbert comics in the home page.

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