This is how to get the weather report for any American zip code with the Linux command-line. Type sudo apt-get install weather-util to install this utility on Linux Mint 14. In this example we are checking New York City.
john@adeptus-mechanicus ~ $ weather 10001 Current conditions at New York City Central Park, NY Last updated Dec 20, 2012 - 10:51 PM EST / 2012.12.21 0351 UTC Temperature: 45.0 F (7.2 C) Relative Humidity: 79% Wind: from the ENE (070 degrees) at 13 MPH (11 KT) gusting to 16 MPH (14 KT) Sky conditions: overcast |
To create a tempfile for writing in a safe manner; use the tempfile command. This creates a temporary file in the /tmp directory that you may use for writing temporary data. This is shown in this example below.
john@adeptus-mechanicus ~ $ tempfile /tmp/filearO2f2 john@adeptus-mechanicus ~ $ ls -hula /tmp/**2f2 -rw------- 1 john john 0 Dec 21 15:31 /tmp/filearO2f2 |
To login again on the same terminal; using the Linux login prompt; use the login command. This is shown in this example below. This is pretty cool I guess; you can see the virtual console login in action. This is another cool feature of Linux.
john@adeptus-mechanicus ~ $ sudo login [sudo] password for john: adeptus-mechanicus login: john Password: Last login: Fri Dec 21 15:41:02 EST 2012 on pts/2 Welcome to Linux Mint 14 Nadia (GNU/Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64) Welcome to Linux Mint * Documentation: http://www.linuxmint.com |
Getting back to the weather problem; here is another script that will also retrieve weather data: http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com.au/2008/09/bash-script-to-get-weather-forecasts.html.
And here is some information about the weather command: https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/get-weather-information-from-the-command-line-in-linux/.
Finally another method of retrieving weather data with curl: http://www.h3manth.com/node/173.