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Re:How not to check the validity of an email address by fbernier on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @10:49PM (#6331902) 

  git commit -m "$(curl -s developerexcuses.com | sed -n '/<a.*>/{s/<[^>]*>//g;p}')"
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Re:How not to check the validity of an email address by brdrak on Thursday September 05, 2013 @12:50AM (#6332247)
Nice bit of sed. :-) Here's the best awk, I could muster:

  awk -F'>' -v RS='<' '/a href/{print$2}'
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Re:How not to check the validity of an email address by raldi on Thursday September 05, 2013 @03:00AM (#6332618)
There's also:

    lynx -dump -nolist developerexcuses.com
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