Quote from: drax0r on September 11, 2009, 02:54:36 PM

VERY quick and dirty in bash:

say `wget --quiet -O - "http://rss.weather.com/weather/rss/local/75409?cm_ven=LWO&cm_cat=rss&par=LWO_rss"| grep "more details" |grep img|awk -F">" '{print $3}'|sed s/"For more details"//g|sed 's/&deg/degrees/g'|awk -F";" '{print $1}'

ok so I open terminal type bash and press enter I get a prompt: bash-3.2$

I paste in your script and press enter and I get another prompt: >

what comes next?

Yeah, try a ` at the end.  I may have pasted one too few characters.

Thanks guys I appreciate all your help with this. 

It looks like I don't have something installed with the added ` I get: bash: wget: command not found

is GNU wget what I need?

Once you've installed fink its something like: fink install wget

Ta-da.

Me too and I am amazed yet so confused

Me too and I am amazed yet so confused

Yes, well - as it turns out this thread should've been under 'Dark Arts.'  I'm going to move it now.

Yes, well - as it turns out this thread should've been under 'Dark Arts.'  I'm going to move it now.

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Sorry for posting in the place! I can't believe that I've never lurked in Dark Arts before!

So I got everything installed and it works! Thank you very much for your sage advice! Now to learn the ins and outs of calling shell scripts from applescript.

I'll update the status of my larger project if anyone is interested;)

So I got everything installed and it works! Thank you very much for your sage advice! Now to learn the ins and outs of calling shell scripts from applescript.

I'll update the status of my larger project if anyone is interested;)

I don't know much about applescript, but I'd reckon you could put the bash stuff into a file like getweather.sh and then chmod +x that file and then have applescript call "open /path/to/getweather.sh"

You might want to make the first line of your script #!/bin/bash (or the output of the command "which bash") whichever is more accurate.