Just a quick one-liner I used to download a bunch of MIDI files from an on-line listing of Chopin MIDIs:
$ wget http://www.piano-midi.de/chopin.htm -q -O - \ | grep 'href=".*\.mid"' \ | sed -e 's/^.*href="\(.*\)".*$/\1/' \ | xargs -i{} wget http://www.piano-midi.de/{}
Maybe not so useful to you, but it’s a good demonstration of applying the hacker’s mentality to one of those moments where, after clicking the fourth link or so, I find myself thinking: Wouldn’t spending a few moments on a one-liner be much more fun than clicking through and saving 44 more links?
Useful or not, I am now testing timidity’s piano sound with a nice rendition of Chopin in the background whereas, without this trick, I’d still be right-click-click-saving links instead of writing this post. It’s up to you to decide whether this is actually good or bad. 😛
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