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    From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Sat Jul 6 22:41:40 2019
    Hi everyone,

    When I convinced Ben Ritchey to take on the NASA picture of the day stuff, I wrote a script for him in bash that would automatically grab the latest file, trim the extra text with sed, and finally zip the pic of the day, create a file_id.diz, etc. He modified it to work on his system/OS, etc.

    I'll be happy to send this script to anyone running Linux who can modify it so it works "today"... since I wrote the script, nasa has moved where they store the pic of the day, etc. etc... so much of it will have be rewritten, but at least it's a place to start if someone can take of the NASA fdn :)

    Let me know here, or email me at janis@filegate.net.

    Thanks so much,
    Janis

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to JANIS KRACHT on Sun Jul 7 12:29:00 2019
    When I convinced Ben Ritchey to take on the NASA picture of the day stuff, I wrote a script for him in bash that would automatically grab the latest
    file,
    trim the extra text with sed, and finally zip the pic of the day, create a file_id.diz, etc. He modified it to work on his system/OS, etc.

    I'll be happy to send this script to anyone running Linux who can modify it
    so
    it works "today"... since I wrote the script, nasa has moved where they
    store
    the pic of the day, etc. etc... so much of it will have be rewritten, but at least it's a place to start if someone can take of the NASA fdn :)

    Let me know here, or email me at janis@filegate.net.

    Janis,
    I might be willing to take it on if I can figure out the script (and where
    the files have been moved to!).

    Mike

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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Mike Powell on Sun Jul 7 15:40:06 2019
    Hi Mike!

    When I convinced Ben Ritchey to take on the NASA picture of the day stuff, >>wrote a script for him in bash that would automatically grab the latest file,
    trim the extra text with sed, and finally zip the pic of the day, create a >> file_id.diz, etc. He modified it to work on his system/OS, etc.
    I'll be happy to send this script to anyone running Linux who can modify it
    so
    it works "today"... since I wrote the script, nasa has moved where they store
    the pic of the day, etc. etc... so much of it will have be rewritten, but at
    least it's a place to start if someone can take of the NASA fdn :)
    Let me know here, or email me at janis@filegate.net.

    Janis,
    I might be willing to take it on if I can figure out the script (and where the files have been moved to!).

    Hey, thank you Mike, much appreciated that you'll even take a look.. :) So far I have 4 people that I've sent the script out to, haven't heard back from them yet though...I understand it will take some time to do this... I'll send you the script in a netmail attach shortly.

    According to Nasa, the files are now located here:

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

    That site redirects you to another site where one can grab the file.

    Thanks again,
    Janis

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