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Get Cable, Dish and Local TV Listings Using Bash

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 3, 2008

[ Thanks to Mike
Golvach
for this link. ]

“This script still gets its content from TV Listings At
Zap2It.com and accepts a much greater number of arguments than our
last attempt. In this version, you can run the entire script
manually, like so:

host # ./cabletv.sh

or use any of the flags for the various arguments required at
time of execution. Of course we include “-h” for help. See directly
below for a picture of your help/usage printout and a manual run up
to, but not including, the beginning of the listings:”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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