[code] cowwords!!!

[Rakesh 'arky' Ambati]

In the dungeon a bored geek bent over his simmering
workstation.

"Now there I add bit of XML" he thought aloud. "And
few left over chunks of useless commands".  

**PUFF**

hmm, what's this. Enlighten me fellows.

Cheers

--arky


#!/bin/sh
#
# SCRIPT: cow-words.sh 
# AUTHOR: Rakesh 'arky' Ambati
(http://www.linuxgazette.com/blog/4864) 
# DATE: 17 January 2005 
# VERSION: you_must_be_kidding
#
# CREDITS: I Thank Karma_Police for the 'cow file
randomizer code'
#
# PURPOSE: Retrieves the Dictionary.com 'Word of the
Day" RSS Feed and 
#          a random character teaches them.    
#
# DEPENDS: 'xmlstarlet'
<http://xmlstr.sourceforge.net> 
#          'cowsay'
<http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml>
#           Both are available packages in Debian
(Sid) repository.
#           To install them just type 'apt-get install
xmlstarlet cowsay'
#
# 
# set -x # Uncomment this for debugging. 
#
#
##############################################################################
# Use 'cowsay -l' to the full list of cow files in
your system               #
# (Sorry fellas I removed possible offensive
'sodomized*, head-in,telebears, #
# kiss' cow files                                     
                      #
##############################################################################

cows=(apt beavis.zen bong bud-frogs bunny cheese cower
daemon default dragon dragon-and-cow elephant
elephant-in-snake eyes flaming-sheep ghostbusters
hellokitty kitty koala kosh luke-koala mech-and-cow
meow milk moofasa moose mutilated ren satanic sheep
skeleton small stegosaurus stimpy supermilker surgery
three-eyes turkey turtle tux udder vader vader-koala
www)

random=RANDOM%44

#############################################################
## Get the XML feed and do the selection              
    ##
#############################################################

/usr/bin/xmlstarlet sel --net -t -m
"/rss/channel/item/description" -v "."
"http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/wotd.rss"
| /usr/bin/cowsay -n -f ${cows[random]}


# End of the script