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

Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by gcb0 on Monday August 15, 2016 @06:28PM (#12293983)

this.

anyone who uses single letter options on a script should be punished.

single letters are for one time typing.

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by viraptor on Monday August 15, 2016 @07:00PM (#12294169)

Single letters are sometimes more known than their full option equivalents. Quick, without a man page, what's the short alias for `tar --get` ?

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by niftich on Monday August 15, 2016 @07:01PM (#12294172)

I have no idea because I memorized 'tar zxvf' a long time ago [1] and I have to google everything else.

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by skoczymroczny on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @10:13AM (#12297560)

I thought you'd post this one https://xkcd.com/1168/

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by vacri on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:46AM (#12295761)

These days tar autodetects zipfiles, and you don't usually need to see the files as they come out, so you can do 'tar xf' instead...

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by khedoros on Monday August 15, 2016 @10:46PM (#12295194)

I wouldn't use "--get". If I wanted to use the long option, I'd use "--extract".

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by voltagex_ on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:19AM (#12295511)

Until you find yourself on (Free)BSD, where it doesn't look like the long options are supported: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?make(1)

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by ktRolster on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @03:04PM (#12299764)

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by vacri on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:48AM (#12295765)

It depends:

is portable, whereas:

    source

is not... which was a surprise. :)

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