Question

I have a shell script that pulls the number of online players, but I need a little help.

The script:

#!/usr/bin/bash
wget --output-document=- http://runescape.com/title.ws 2>/dev/null \
    | grep PlayerCount \
    | head -1l \
    | sed 's/^[^>]*>//' \
    | sed "s/currently.*$/$(date '+%r %b %d %Y')/"

It outputs the following:

<p class="top"><span>69,215</span> people 06:31:37 PM Nov 22 2011

What I would like it to say is this:

69,215 people 06:31:37 PM Nov 22 2011

Can any of you help me? 🙂

Answer 1

This is one of many different ways to do this. Used cut and sed (cut -d">" -f 3,4 | sed 's/<\/span>//'):

[ 15:40 [e-mail] ~ ]$ echo "<p class="top"><span>69,215</span> people 06:31:37 PM Nov 22 2011" | cut -d">" -f 3,4 | sed 's/<\/span>//'
69,215 people 06:31:37 PM Nov 22 2011



#!/usr/bin/bash
wget --output-document=- http://runescape.com/title.ws 2>/dev/null \
    | grep PlayerCount \
    | head -1l \
    | sed 's/^[^>]*>//' \
    | sed "s/currently.*$/$(date '+%r %b %d %Y')/" \
    | cut -d">" -f 3,4 \
    | sed 's/<\/span>//'