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Geektool

Nemanja91 · 2009-12-08 15:21:01

Does anyone here use geektool i started using it and i have the date, time, day, calendar and some other small stuff!! Would anyone be able to post how to get the live weather for the desktop?? We could also post useful scripts for eachother!!

08-12-2009 3:21pm

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Nemanja91

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Does anyone here use geektool i started using it and i have the date, time, day, calendar and some other small stuff!!

Would anyone be able to post how to get the live weather for the desktop??

We could also post useful scripts for eachother!!

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#2 08-12-2009 8:54pm

john__long

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Here's the details of the stuff I use!

Weather acting up a little for me. Working on it.

My Desktop's :: http://morepackets.com/~johnlong/sideBySide.JPG
Script to get network info :: http://morepackets.com/~johnlong/inet.pl
Time:

date "+%H:%M"

Day:

date "+%d"

Month:

date "+%B"

Weekday:

date "+%A"

Weather Condition:

lynx -dump http://printer.wunderground.com/auto/printer/global/stations/03973.html|awk '/Cond/ && !/Fore/ {for (i=2; i<=10; i++) printf $i " " }'

Weather Temp:

lynx -dump http://printer.wunderground.com/auto/printer/global/stations/03973.html|awk '/Temp/{printf $2, ": "; for (i=3; i<=3; i++) printf $i " " }'

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