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Digg/RSS Reader (See related posts)

Grabs the RSS-feed from digg.com and reads it out
loud using festival.

#!/bin/sh
# Copyright (c) 2005 Davor Babic <davorb@gmail.com>
# All rights reserved.
# Usage of the works is permitted provided that this
# instrument is retained with the works, so that any
# entity that uses the works is notified of this
# instrument.
# DISCLAIMER: THE WORKS ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY.

url="http://digg.com/rss/index.xml"

echo "Parsing RSS..."
curl --silent "$url" | grep -E '(title>|description>)' | \
        sed -n '4,$p' | \
	sed -e 's/<title>//' -e 's/<\/title>//' -e 's/<description>/  /' \
	    -e 's/<\/description>//' | head -5 > digg 
echo "Reading..."
festival --tts digg
rm -rf ./digg
echo "Done."
to rss shell reader digg festival by davor on Wed Apr 12 00:18:53 -0400 2006

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