Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and other bash commands

Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by black_knight on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:18PM (#12293089)

Makefiles are underrated. The concept is so simple – it is basically a dependency graph with attached shell scripts – yet so powerful. Not just for building software, but also for everyday tasks where you need some files to be updated under some condition.

I recommend mk (original make replacement for Plan 9, available for different OSes through Plan9Port [0,1]). It has a bit more uniform syntax, and can check that the dependency graph is wellfounded.

[0] https://github.com/9fans/plan9port

[1] https://swtch.com/plan9port/

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by vacri on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:16AM (#12295502)

I've been getting into Makefiles more over the past year, and still a noob at it. I see them as a necessary evil - they're baroque and they hurt... and yet they make other things easier. I'm using them less to compile stuff and more to package/upload things, but they certainly have their place.

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by gcb0 on Monday August 15, 2016 @06:27PM (#12293977)

another advantage of make is that every host have it. like vim.

mk is not there yet.

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by viraptor on Monday August 15, 2016 @07:03PM (#12294179)

Did you mean "vi"? Lots of systems don't install vim by default.

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by taneq on Monday August 15, 2016 @11:00PM (#12295252)

And contrariwise, lots of hosts install "vi" which actually seems to be vim. Aah, 'standards'. :P

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by gcb0 on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:32AM (#12302860)

not since 1990. :)

and even if that is the case, I'm still better being a vim user at a system that only has vi and ed, then any other editor's user.

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