Re: [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern

[Fernan Bolando <fernanbolando@mailc.net>]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Richard Miller<9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
>> although it uses http, twitter has got an api that you can use outside
>> a browser. it's much the same with several others, including aws.
>> there are reasonably clear descriptions of the messages, and you can construct
>> and send them however you like, in which ever language you like.
>
> The 'stock' command (undocumented?) is a good example of this.
> (It's a 14-line shell script):
>
> term% stock goog
> "GOOG","Google Inc.",427.69,"7/22/2009",0.00,0
>
> I have a similar little script to do currency conversions:
>
> term% currency usd eur
>  1 US Dollar (USD) = 0.70403 Euro (EUR)
> term% currency -d 10/30/2000 usd eur
>  1 US Dollar (USD) = 1.19046 Euro (EUR)
>
> which is just a bit of syntactic sugar wrapped around this:
>
> hget 'http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic?user=printable&exch='$xout'&expr='$xin'&value=1&date_fmt=us&date='$date | grep '^[   ]*1 '
>
>
>

now if somebody can create a script to lookup words in dictionary.com
preformatted without ads. :)

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