Little script that runs every morning on my raspberry pi and emails me the movies page from esakal!

esakal.sh

#!/bin/bash

link="http://epaper3.esakal.com/%s/Enlarge/PuneCity/Pune1Today/page%s.htm"
html_file7="/var/log/esakal.htm7"
html_file8="/var/log/esakal.htm8"
url=""

# cf. "Editing files with the ed text editor from scripts.",
# http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/doku.php?id=howto:edit-ed

prepend() {
    printf '%s\n' H 1i "${1}" . wq | ed -s "${2}"
}

download() {
    url=""
    printf -v url $link `date +%-d%b%Y` "${1}"
    echo $url
    wget -O "${2}" -k $url
}

download 8 $html_file8
download 7 $html_file7

echo "appending files $html_file7  and 8"
cat $html_file7 >> $html_file8


prepend $url $html_file8


mail -a "Content-type: text/html" -s "eSakal - movies" girish.sonawane@gmail.com < $html_file8

rm $html_file8
rm $html_file7