---------------------------------------- awk is the best January 23rd, 2018 ---------------------------------------- I have a section on this phlog called "Current Books" [0]. That is the output of a cgi script that queries my Goodreads reading list via RSS, selects the relevant data, formats and displays it. This is the heart of that script. It's 1 line of code. (Fake linebreaks for easy reading) curl -s "<RSS FEED>" | /usr/pkg/bin/xml sel -t -m "/rss/channel/item" -v "title" -o "^" -v "author_name" -o "^" -v "book/num_pages" -n | awk 'BEGIN { FS="^"; books="\n"; print "Books I am currently reading:" } $3 ~ /[0-9]+/ { pages+=$3; books=(books $1 "\n by " $2 "\n") } END { print "(" pages " pages left to read)\n", books }' | fold -s -w 66 > "/sdf/arpa/tz/t/tomasino/gopher/reading/currentbooks.txt" I love awk and I don't get to use it nearly enough. (TXT) [0] Currently Reading