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		eof on July 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bash-Snippets: A collection of small bash scripts ... that's easier to remember than 'weather' for getting the weather?

tomswartz07 on July 14, 2017 [–]

`function weather() { curl "http://wttr.in/$1";}`

Not sure why it needs to be more complicated than that.

aaronchall on July 17, 2017 | [–]

the function keyword is unnecessary - removing it makes the function creation more cross-compatible with different shells.

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