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Unfundednut
Unfundednut

Reputation: 334

Curl To Variable Not Working

I am attempting to grab a specific field from a curl request. It works perfectly fine via the shell, but as soon as I try to assign a variable it stops working.

This is the stand-alone command.

curl --silent 'http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwaatmget.php?x=MNC131&y=0' | grep -E '  <title>' | awk -F '[<>]' '{print $3}'

This is the small bit from the script. It echos a blank variable.

weatheralert=$(curl --silent 'http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwaatmget.php?x=MNC131&y=0' | grep -E '  <title>' | awk -F '[<>]' '{print $3}')
echo "Current Weather Alert: $weatheralert"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 216

Answers (1)

Avinash Raj
Avinash Raj

Reputation: 174706

Note that there is a tab character exists before <title> tag not 3 or 4 whitespace. So copy paste a tab character or use grep -P '\t<title>' command.

$ weatheralert=$(curl --silent 'http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwaatmget.php?x=MNC131&y=0' | grep -P '\t<title>'|awk -F '[<>]' '{print $3}')
$ echo "Current Weather Alert: $weatheralert"
Current Weather Alert: There are no active watches, warnings or advisories

Upvotes: 1

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