Hi everyone,

When I convinced Ben Ritchey to take on the NASA picture of the day stuff, I wrote a script for him in bash that would automatically grab the latest file, trim the extra text with sed, and finally zip the pic of the day, create a file_id.diz, etc. He modified it to work on his system/OS, etc.

I'll be happy to send this script to anyone running Linux who can modify it so it works "today"... since I wrote the script, nasa has moved where they store the pic of the day, etc. etc... so much of it will have be rewritten, but at least it's a place to start if someone can take of the NASA fdn :)

Let me know here, or email me at [email protected].

Thanks so much,
Janis

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Hello, Janis Kracht.
On 7/6/19 10:41 PM you wrote:

Hi everyone, When I convinced Ben Ritchey to take on the NASA
picture of the day stuff, I wrote a script for him in bash that
would automatically grab the latest file, trim the extra text with
sed, and finally zip the pic of the day, create a file_id.diz,
etc. He modified it to work on his system/OS, etc. I'll be happy
to send this script to anyone running Linux who can modify it so
it works "today"... since I wrote the script, nasa has moved where
they store the pic of the day, etc. etc... so much of it will have
be rewritten, but at least it's a place to start if someone can
take of the NASA fdn :) Let me know here, or email me at [email protected].

I know very little about hatching files, but I do know bash. If no one else steps up this is something I can take a look at.
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Mike
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Hi Mike!

Hi everyone, When I convinced Ben Ritchey to take on the NASA
picture of the day stuff, I wrote a script for him in bash that
would automatically grab the latest file, trim the extra text with
sed, and finally zip the pic of the day, create a file_id.diz,
etc. He modified it to work on his system/OS, etc. I'll be happy
to send this script to anyone running Linux who can modify it so
it works "today"... since I wrote the script, nasa has moved where

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I know very little about hatching files, but I do know bash. If no one else steps up this is something I can take a look at.

Thank you so much Mike, we have the NASA picture of the day covered now, I was going to post about that first thing this AM and _then_ I overslept this AM!! <g>. I was up a bit late night working on this stuff.

Alan Ianson will be taking care of NASA's picture of the day..

He hatched his first file late last night just before I headed off to sleep (YAY) and then I worked with someone else who is looking at the echolist software.

That still leaves some other File echos we can look at, and discuss in the FILEGATE message echo :)

Take care,
Janis

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