[ale] qotd boiler script

[Geoffrey]

Cy Kurtz wrote:
> I want to write a script that does this:
> 
> 1. Boil quotes from a qotd(quotes of the day) daily email from tqp(the
> quotations page),
> 
> 2. append these quotes to /usr/share/games/fortunes/qotd,
> 
> 3. add the '%' symbols so it makes sense to strfile,
> 
> 4. and run strfile on the updated /usr/share/games/fortunes/qotd so my
> fortune program can access them.
> 
> Is such a thing possible? Would sed be the best tool?

Anything is possible. :)  You can grab the quotes from the email if you 
can key on something specific.  If you're going to have to rely on email 
headers, that's a bit more difficult, but doable.

It's likely you'll need something a bit more robust then sed, such as 
awk or perl.  Either will permit you to do all you want to above, where 
as sed (likely) will not.

> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Cy Kurtz
> 
> 
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