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Article:
  Tapping RSS with Shell Scripts
Subject:   REBOL is a very good scripting option
Date:   2004-03-31 08:08:28
From:   brittlestar
curl, grep, sed... these are fundamental nix commands, but it also involves navigating the details of these commands. In contrast, REBOL offers a simple approach:




url: read http://slashdot.org/index.rss


parse/all url [ 

  any [

    <title> copy title to </title> 

    (print title)  

    | 

    <description> copy desc to </description> 

    (print desc) 

    | 

    skip

  ] 

  to end

]


REBOL is free and platform-independent (although not OSS). It's a very handy, very tiny, cross-platform scripting shell -- and it provides a capable built-in GUI (not yet on OSX).
For more info, see: http://www.rebol.com and http://www.rebol.net/cookbook/