http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:28:41 GMT DZone Snippets: reader code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1900 Grabs the RSS-feed from digg.com and reads it out <br />loud using festival. <br /> <br /><code> <br />#!/bin/sh <br /># Copyright (c) 2005 Davor Babic <davorb@gmail.com> <br /># All rights reserved. <br /># Usage of the works is permitted provided that this <br /># instrument is retained with the works, so that any <br /># entity that uses the works is notified of this <br /># instrument. <br /># DISCLAIMER: THE WORKS ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY. <br /> <br />url="http://digg.com/rss/index.xml" <br /> <br />echo "Parsing RSS..." <br />curl --silent "$url" | grep -E '(title>|description>)' | \ <br /> sed -n '4,$p' | \ <br /> sed -e 's/<title>//' -e 's/<\/title>//' -e 's/<description>/ /' \ <br /> -e 's/<\/description>//' | head -5 > digg <br />echo "Reading..." <br />festival --tts digg <br />rm -rf ./digg <br />echo "Done." <br /></code> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:18:53 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1900 davor (Davor Babic)