xkcd_fetch.sh

#!/bin/bash
#By Philip Kavanagh
info=`curl -s http://xkcd.com/ | grep -- imgs.xkcd.com/comics | sed -n 1p`
comicURL=`echo $info | cut -f2 -d"\""`
titleTEXT=`echo $info | cut -f4 -d"\""`
wget --quiet $comicURL -O /tmp/xkcd.$$
xdg-open /tmp/xkcd.$$
notify-send "XKCD Title-text" "$titleTEXT"