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Get weather information from the command line in Linux.

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Printing information about the weather on the command line is quite easy on Linux. One way is using the finger(1) command to retrieve a forecast for a certain city. ┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ finger [email protected] -= Meteogram for Sydney, New South Wales, Australia =- ‘C Rain (mm) 25 24 23 ^^^ 22 ===^^^^^^ ===^^^ 21=== ^^^=–=–=–=–=– 20 … Read more

MATE weather applet on Ubuntu 18.04 not working. This is how to fix it.

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The MATE weather applet on Ubuntu 18.04 was not working on my Ubuntu 18.04 installation. This is how I fixed it with a simple patch. sudo sed -i ‘s|https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver_current/httpparam|https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver1_3/httpparam\x0\x0\x0\x0\x0|’ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmateweather.so.1sudo sed -i ‘s|https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver_current/httpparam|https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver1_3/httpparam\x0\x0\x0\x0\x0|’ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmateweather.so.1 The patch above will fix the libmateweather library. Then the applet will work. Log out and back into the MATE desktop … Read more

Interesting Linux commands that might be very useful.

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List only directories with the Linux command line. This lists a directory with all folders listed first, then return only the listing of folders in the directory. 4.4 Tue Oct 09 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ls –color=auto –group-directories-first -Hul | head -n `echo */ | wc -w` total 3866624 drwxrwxrwx+ 6 jason jason 4096 Oct 9 … Read more

How to get weather information with curl on Linux.

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The curl command on Linux may be used to get weather information from the Internet. The curl wttr.in/”new york” command will retrieve weather information from wttr.in. [jason@darknet:~] curl wttr.in/"new york" Weather for City: New York, United States of America   \ / Clear .-. 6 – 8 °C ― ( ) ― ↓ 9 km/h … Read more

How to get the weather forecast for your US postcode using the weather command.

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Getting the weather forecast for your US postcode is very simple when you are running either Ubuntu or Linux Mint. The weather-util package contains the weather command that makes this possible. Use this command to install the weather-util package. sudo apt-get install weather-utilsudo apt-get install weather-util This is the output that you get when you … Read more

How to get the weather report from the command-line in America with Linux and other cool commands.

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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 … Read more