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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 27 Feb 2004.
Re: Tran and the Farts

Re: Tran and the Farts

In message <XbM%b.12549$UU.2106@lakeread01>  Faux_Pseudo
<Fau...@ip68-230-192-17.rd.hr.cox.net> wrote:

>Ok I have gotten tired of not finding ascii art farts here.  So I am 
>going to start running the following script at 10 after midnight EST
>each day.  This will post the most current ascii art fart to the group.
>If you don't want to see them then use your killfile and block out the
>subject of "assci art fart" and you won't have to see them or any replies.
>
>
>##start############# -- farts.sh -- ###################
>#!/bin/bash
># start bad code that will need updating since
># it has no error or content checking at all.
>source /home/faux/.bashrc
>FART="$(lynx -dump -source  http://www.asciiartfarts.com/)" 
>START=$(echo "$FART" | grep -n '<pre>' file | tail -1 | awk -F : '{print$1}') 
>TAIL=$(echo "$FART" | grep -n '</pre>' file | tail -1 | awk -F : '{print$1}') 
>LINES=$((TAIL-START)) 
>FART2="$(echo "$FART" | head -$((TAIL-1)) file | tail -$((LINES-1)) )"
>TITLE="$(echo "$FART" | grep title | sed -e 's/<title>//' -e \
> 's/Farts:/Fart for/' -e 's/#.*(//' -e 's/)//' -e 's/<\/title>//')"
>echo "$FART2" > /home/faux/.fart
>newspost  -i news.east.cox.net -f "F0_...@yahoo.com" -F Faux_Tran -n \
> alt.ascii-art -s "$TITLE" -t /home/faux/.fart 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null
>##end############# -- farts.sh -- ###################

You should add a random assortment of *dean-stark* newsgroups, too.

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From: Sharky <sha...@hellsgate.orq>
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Subject: Re: Tran and the Farts
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