The Beauty of Unix Pipelines

Re:The Beauty of Unix Pipelines by russellbeattie on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:17PM (#23424039)

Here's a JS script [1] I wrote a little while ago just for my own use that queries the CDC for the latest virus numbers, then calcs the average, formats the data and prints to the command line. You can pass in a number of days, otherwise it pulls the last 14 days.

$ node query-cdc.js 7

It's nothing special, but I wouldn't want to try to do this with command line utilities. (And yes, it was a bit uglier, but I cleaned it up of random crap I had thrown in before posting it.)

1. https://gist.github.com/russellbeattie/f9edf91115b43d6d7ca3c...

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Re:The Beauty of Unix Pipelines by mongol on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:37AM (#23436863)

Thanks, appreciated! I guess using shebang #!/usr/bin/node does not work as # is not a valid comment?

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Re:The Beauty of Unix Pipelines by russellbeattie on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:06PM (#23450824)

I think Node has an exception for that built in, so you can do that or #!/usr/bin/env node and it'll work.

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