[MLUG] Re: getting the current temperature

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Actually the easiest way is to use the KDE or GNOME desktops, and use 
the built in weather apps.


Mike Miller wrote:
> That was kinda lame so I did go back and fix it.  Here's a much better 
> script, now in Bash, that you can use.  Just change the default_zip on 
> the first line.  You can now do things like this:
> 
> temp 31792
> 
> To get the current temperature in that zip code.  It pumps out some 
> other stuff too, but to make it easy to change how it works, I listed 
> the perl output variables at the end.  So you can change the this bit...
> 
> Last updated: $2\n$1\n$3 $4 ($5)
> 
> To get different kinds of output formats.  For example, changing it to 
> this...
> 
> $4
> 
> ...would give you nothing but the Fahrenheit temperature (and the 
> current time which is automatically pumped out earlier in the script -- 
> you could comment that out if you wanted).
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> #!/usr/bin/bash
> 
> export default_zip=55406
> 
> if [ "$#" = "0" ]; then
>    export zip=$default_zip
> else
>    export zip=$1
> fi
> 
> gdate +"Current time: %b %d, %l:%M %P %Z" | perl -pe 's/ +/ /g'
> 
> lynx -source "http://forecast.weather.gov/zipcity.php?inputstring=$zip" 
> | gegrep -A3 '^<td><span class="blue1">' | perl -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/} 
> s@<td><span class="blue1">(.+?)</span><br>.+?<br>Last Update on 
> (.+?)<br>.+align="center">(.*?)<br><br>(.+?)<br>\((.+?)\)</td>@Last 
> updated: $2\n$1\n$3 $4 ($5)@s ; s/&deg;/°/g'
> 
> # Perl output variables:
> #
> # $1 = weather station location
> # $2 = last update time
> # $3 = weather condition (e.g., Fair)
> # $4 = degrees F
> # $5 = degress C
> 
> 
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