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Created May 3, 2013 04:12
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Mount it on crontab, and it will send you daily xkcd pick.
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xkcd.sh
num=$(curl -s xkcd.com | grep -oh -m 1 'v" href="/[0-9]*' | sed 's/v" href="\/'//)
n=$[ $RANDOM % $num ]
curl -s xkcd.com/$n/ | grep '<img.*comics' | mail -a 'Content-Type: text/html' -s 'xkcd daily pick' <email>
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