ungulation

#!/bin/bash

#set up file names and such
PAGE=reddit.com/.json
TEMPFILENEW=speaker.tmp
TEMPFILEOLD=speakerprev.tmp
DIFFFILE=diff.tmp
SPEAKME=speakthis.tmp

#overwrite the old headlines with the newer ones
mv $TEMPFILENEW $TEMPFILEOLD

#get the latest news and make it readable
wget --quiet $PAGE -O $TEMPFILENEW
sed -i 's/created_utc/\n/g' $TEMPFILENEW
sed -i 's/^.*title"://g' $TEMPFILENEW
sed -i 's/^.*}}//g' $TEMPFILENEW
sed -i 's/[\"|\\|,$]//g' $TEMPFILENEW

#now figure out what has changed since our last update
diff -iw $TEMPFILEOLD $TEMPFILENEW > $DIFFFILE
egrep   '^>' $DIFFFILE > $SPEAKME
sed -i 's/^>//g' $SPEAKME

#print it out and speak it
echo "The latest headlines:"
cat $SPEAKME
espeak -f $SPEAKME