weather script

[Andrej Marjan]

Adil Kodian wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:31:05 -0400, David J Patrick 
>
>export PS1="Current temp: $(wget -nv -q -O -
>http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/CYXD.html|grep 'C)' |head -1 |
>awk '{print $5}' |tr -d '(') >"
>  
>

Careful about using American data. I've seen their weather info for 
Toronto lag by half a day. I used to maintain a screen scraper for 
Environment Canada 
(http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?yyz) before they 
fixed their pages. Same principle applies, though.
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