#!/bin/sh -u
# A weather script to show the current temperature in Ottawa
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# Syntax:     $0     (no command line arguments used)
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# Purpose:
#  Display the current weather for Ottawa.
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# Student Name:                 Ben Dover
# Algonquin EMail Address:      abcd0001
# Student Number:               074-210-779 
# Course Number:                NET2003  
# Lab Section Number:           014 
# Professor Name:               Ian Allen 
# Assignment Name/Number/Date:  This is a sample exercise label
# Comment:                      This is a sample.
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# Use standard search path, friendly umask, ASCII collating and sorting.
#
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin ; export PATH
umask 022
LC_COLLATE=C ; export LC_COLLATE

# Note the need to quote the URL because of the shell metacharacter.
# You may use a backslash to hide newlines from the shell, so that
# the long line can be written more readably as many lines in the script.
# For readability, lines should be limited to 80 characters long or less.
#
temp=$(
  lynx -dump 'http://text.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?on-118' \
    | grep -A 1 -e 'Temperature:' \
    | tail -1
)

# Translate spans of multiple blanks to one single blank.
#
echo "The temperature in Ottawa is $temp" | tr -s ' '