There appears to be a woot-off today

[MrFebtober]

LOL, yeah, good luck with selling a sun tanning tool to the basement dwellers that likely make up most of the wooter population.

 

[pickles]

it has a nice lanyard that would compliment any name badge or pocket protector

 

[SporkD2]

buy three, in case you lose two of them

 

[pickles]

12.783 its dropping! at this rate we'll never get to bid on the Ohura blow-up doll !!!!!

 

[JustDave]

Now if it were a zombie detector, that would be wonderful.

 

[SporkD2]

34% left, seems like all their items this wootoff have been neverending

 

[findthefish]

34% left, seems like all their items this wootoff have been neverending

I can't imagine why everyone didn't jump all over the UV Detector.

 

[SporkD2]

usually the crap they have sells fast because they only have a few of them

 

[findthefish]

Whoever writes these descriptions deserves to get run over by a car. They are really irritating.

 

[MrFebtober]

usually the crap they have sells fast because they only have a few of them

...and the mystery bags o' crap sell fastest of all!

 

[pickles]

Oh I'd woot on a mystery bag o' crap!

 

[VatorMan]

I've heard these UV detectors are great for making beer.

 

[brauhaus]

i think it was a 2 day woot-off... haven't checked today is it still going?

 

[pickles]

nope its done

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Bash script for getting today's woot:

#!/bin/bash

clear

echo -n "Retreiving woot..."

wget -q -O/tmp/woot.com http://www.woot.com

echo -e "done.\n"

awk '/"TitleHeader"/' /tmp/woot.com | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;s/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'
awk '/"PriceSpan"/' /tmp/woot.com | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;s/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'

rm /tmp/woot.com

echo

Remind me when there's a woot-off, and I'll include the percent left as well as a loop/update option.

 

[pickles]

Bash script for getting today's woot:

...

Remind me when there's a woot-off, and I'll include the percent left as well as a loop/update option.

is this some sort of woot-O-meter?

 

[Yuri_Rage]

It's a stepping stone to a woot-meter. It's a bash (shell) script that displays today's woot (and my very rough/unrefined scripting skills). Next time there's a woot-off, I'll be able to change the script to actually be a woot-meter.

 

[JustDave]

Yuri, you are an über geek and I love it. You just don't see 'awk' and 'sed' on brewing forums enough. Nicely done.

 

[pickles]

that wiki is more confusing that the woot-O-meter but I like it!

 

[Yuri_Rage]

In layman's terms, bash is the Unix/Linux version of DOS. More accurately, DOS is a bastardization of a Unix shell.