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Created November 24, 2014 22:05
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Grab URL of today's Bing background image + set as desktop BG
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gistfile1.sh
#!/bin/bash
JSON_URL="http://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=js&idx=0&n=1&nc=1397809837851&pid=hp"
URL=$(echo "http://www.bing.com"$(curl -s $JSON_URL | sed 's/.*"url":"\(.*\.jpg\)".*/\1/'))
FILENAME=$(mktemp --suffix=".jpg")
curl -sL $URL > $FILENAME
feh --bg-fill $FILENAME
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