News RSS

The Bash Script automates the process of calling the individual code components it starts by declaring a while loop, this will execute constantly with no end conditions.

curl - this command transfers data from the URL assigned.

Which in this case is the "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml" which is an RSS feed of each bbc news item from the main page. Then the ">" will put the output of the curl into the directory and text file.

Next runs the parser tool, takes the output from the curl. which is a full webpage of information and processes it to extract each headline and place them within a list, this list is then outputted to another text file. Because its a constant loop by adding a sleep function the loop is delayed from resetting by 1800 seconds.

Finally the code uses pkill on the GUI application, this will allow the loop be to restarted a fresh as there will be no remaining live processes from the script.

The Parser saves an input and output stream file as objects "ifstream" and "ofstream". Opens both files and then reads each line from the input file. If it finds the start of a title header it increases a counter.

String Manipulation then occurs to find and erase around each line which increased the counter, and then write to the ofstream and into the output file.