Re: [LUG] Help with a little code for conky

["M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@xxxxxxx>]

On 07/12/18 09:40, Pentiddy wrote:

Hi All,

As a little diversion I'm looking at presenting information from Aurorawatch API on conky.
Got somewhere but my programming skills now find me lacking...

So in .conkyrc file I have the following
${execi 300 grep "state" ~/.cache/conky-vision/aurora2.xml | grep -o "name=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" | awk 'NR==1' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'}\

form the file aurora2.xml whose contents show

<aurorawatch>
  <current>
    <state name="green" value="0" color="#33ff33">No significant activity</state>
  </current>
  <previous>
    <state name="yellow" value="50" color="#ffff00">Minor geomagnetic activity</state>
  </previous>
  <station>SAMNET/LAN2. Lancaster, UK.</station>
  <updated>2018-12-07 08:45:32</updated>
</aurorawatch>

This displays "GREEN" (or whatever the status is...
I would simply like to display the last information on that line "No significant activity"
Any help with this would be gratefully received.
Thanks

Anthony

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That looks overly complicated to me .. leave it with me and I'll have a think with my sed/awk/RE-fu for later... assuming someone doesn't nail it before me!! :]

MJE

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