[dundee] Defcon-16 Media Archives

[Lee Hughes]

then offer two versions!!! east to understand, and uber l33t versions..
;-)

tools, tools tools...

next you'll be writing google search crawler, with wget and a few cool bash commands.

Cheers,
Lee


--- On Thu, 12/3/09, gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com> wrote:
From: gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [dundee] Defcon-16 Media Archives
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Date: Thursday, 12 March, 2009, 8:51 AM



2009/3/12 Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com>



I offer a small improvement:



If you're going to write a shell script you might as well include the

user commands before hand as part of the script.  At least that's what

I first thought; however in this simple case you're better writing it

on as a one liner:



wget -qO - https://www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-16-video.rss | grep

m4v | cut -d '"' -f2 | wget -i -



Redirecting everything through stdout/stdin has the advantage of not

leaving temporary files on your disk.


That's great Rick if you are writing everything for yourself to enable efficiency but when you are writing instructions on the TayLUG for others to follow, Nick's more long winded version is preferred. This is due to people having different levels of knowledge and experience, you want to write instructions that is easy to follow and so that people have a reasonable idea of how things are being derived i.e. showing your working, so that they can apply this knowledge in other areas. This is only my personal opinion, but I prefer doing things so that understanding is achieved in addition to an objective being achieved.


Gordon  


 

R.



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