ASCII Art Fart for Fri, 2008 Aug 22: #3347 INCONTINENCE

_.-In alt.ascii-art, Faux_Tran wrote the following -._
>  #3347 INCONTINENCE
> Taken from <url:http://www.asciiartfarts.com/>

Well after a few years of regular updates Tran has slacked recently
and he is only keeping about 4 farts in queue and they have drained
out a few times recently.  While the script I wrote to post them here
worked fine as long as they were being updated daily his on/off habits
of late have caused the script to post the same thing a few days in a
row and then I shut it off and manually check to see if he has updated
the site before restarting it.

That wasn't working so I just updated the script so that if the fart
hasn't changed then it will just not post anything.  Its a minor but
long overdue fix to the script.  Below is the new script which I am
posting in case somone has need of something like it for other needs.

#!/bin/bash
## start bad code that will need updating since
## it has no error checking at all.
source /home/faux/.bashrc
FART="$(lynx -dump -source  http://www.asciiartfarts.com/current.txt)"
TITLE="$(echo "$FART" | grep ^\# | head -1 | sed 's/ (.*//')" 
BODY="$(echo "$FART" | tail +10)"
SUBJECT="ASCII Art Fart for $(echo "$FART" | grep ^\# | head -1 | sed -e 's/.*(//' -e 's/).*//'): $TITLE"
echo " $TITLE" > /home/faux/.fart
echo "$BODY" >> /home/faux/.fart
echo -e '\nTaken from <url:http://www.asciiartfarts.com/>' >> /home/faux/.fart
diff /home/faux/.fart  /home/faux/.fart.old >/dev/null
if [[ "$?" == "0" ]]  ; then : ; else 
newspost  -i news.east.cox.net -f "$EDRESS" -F Faux_Tran -n \
 alt.ascii-art -s "$SUBJECT" -t /home/faux/.fart #2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null
fi
cp  /home/faux/.fart  /home/faux/.fart.old
##EOF

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