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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Insert row into empty file...how? Post 302879482 by Benrosa on Thursday 12th of December 2013 03:58:29 PM
Old 12-12-2013
bartus11:

Yes, your solution worked fine...thank you so much. (I'll use tags around script in any future posts).
 

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NAME
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ljlatest [--verbose] [--columns N] DESCRIPTION
The ljlatest script reads the most recent public posts made to livejournal.com, and prints them on stdout, after doing a rudimentary con- version of HTML to plain text. This script is just a wrapper around xscreensaver-text --url http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-rss.bml As of XScreenSaver 4.21, you can just use use above URL in the "Text URL" field on the "Advanced" tab in xscreensaver-demo(1). BUGS
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http://www.livejournal.com/, xscreensaver(1), xscreensaver-text(1), fortune(1), phosphor(6x), apple2(6x), starwars(6x), fontglide(6x), dadadodo(1), webcollage(6x), driftnet(1) EtherPEG, EtherPeek COPYRIGHT
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