Quick and dirty way to get Internet-Drafts onto your kindle

kindle_my_rfc.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Kindle My RFC (or Internet-Draft)
# 
# Sends an Internet Draft to your kindle
# Invocation:
# > kindle_my_rfc [path/to/rfc2629-xml-file]
# > kindle_my_rfc [draft-name-with-number-00]
# 
# Requires:
#   - xsltproc
#   - rfc2629xslt
#   - kindlegen
#   - sed
#   - mutt
#   - $KINDLE_ADDR set to kindle e-mail address


rfc2629xslt=~/Downloads/rfc2629xslt
tmpfile=/tmp/kindle_my_rfc
xmlfile=$1

if [ ! -f $xmlfile ]; then
  curl -f "http://www.ietf.org/id/${xmlfile}.xml" -o ${tmpfile}.xml || exit 1;
  xmlfile=${tmpfile}.xml
fi

rm -f ${tmpfile}.html
xsltproc $rfc2629xslt/rfc2629.xslt $xmlfile > ${tmpfile}.html
sed -Ei '' '/^[ \t]*margin-left:/d' ${tmpfile}.html
kindlegen ${tmpfile}.html
rm -f ${tmpfile}.html

#uuencode ${tmpfile}.mobi ${tmpfile}.mobi | mail -s "RFC upload" $KINDLE_ADDR
mutt -s "RFC Upload" -a ${tmpfile}.mobi $KINDLE_ADDR < "."
rm ${tmpfile}.mobi