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Re: Viber on Debian



On 28/01/14 19:00, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:18:56PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>
>> and if it exists, scrape the page for the license e.g.:-
>> $ curl -s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber|html2text|grep License|head -n1
> 
> That will pick up bad grammar, maybe better is:
> curl -s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber|html2text|grepLicen\[sc\]e|head -n1
> 
> Licence - is the noun
> License - is the verb

Are you serious? Grammar (butter for those without bread).... how old
are you? :)

> 
> Just wondering why without sending it through html2text it returns:
> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;white-space: nowrap;;"><a
> href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th>
> 
> 


That's why I convert the page to text, so it works on all wikipedia
software pages *as* they are, not re-imagined to suit pendantic
semantics. ;)


Kind regards.


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