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Old 10-14-2008, 03:55 PM   #1
dirk
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Random image script?


Hello,I am trying to make a script that downloads a random image from the internet and sets it as my background.I am not very good at this so any help is much appreciated .So far i have something like this

Code:
#!/bin/sh
curl http://www.randomimage.us/index.php -o tmp.txt
cat tmp.txt | grep .jpg | xargs curl -o tmp.jpg
fbsetbg tmp.jpg
There is probably a easier way to do this but I dont know lol.
The problem I have here is with grep,I need it to only grep the url and not everything on that line.How can I do this?
Any help much appreciated
Thanks
 
Old 10-14-2008, 05:08 PM   #2
dirk
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Thanks to repz on the #linux channel on freenode I have got this to work.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
curl http://www.randomimage.us/index.php -o tmp.txt
curl -o tmp.jpg `egrep -o "http:[^']+\.jpg" tmp.txt`
fbsetbg tmp.jpg
thanks repz
 
  


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