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It is a (rare) pleasure to see a simple solution posted to HN that does not require Python or some other scripting language. Or GNU sed for that matter. I no longer have a Blackboard account, but if I did, or had a guest account to play with, I would try rewriting your Bash script in POSIX-like sh. Nice work and a good choice of project.
"Requirements
bash curl sed openssl or python"
My University (the University of Aberdeen) uses Blackboard, I wonder if it mightn't be less horrible than the web interface.
AFAIK they use Moodle now and it's leaps and bound better (more reliable, more secure, easier to use) than any of the previous solutions.
My University (the University of Aberdeen) uses Blackboard, I wonder if it mightn't be less horrible than the web interface.
My University (the University of Aberdeen) uses Blackboard, I wonder if it mightn't be less horrible than the web interface.
University of Aberdeen alumni here, do they still use the awful portal for timetables? I got half way through writing an Android app for parsing it and displaying it in a clearer way last year.
It is a (rare) pleasure to see a simple solution posted to HN that does not require Python or some other scripting language. Or GNU sed for that matter. I no longer have a Blackboard account, but if I did, or had a guest account to play with, I would try rewriting your Bash script in POSIX-like sh. Nice work and a good choice of project.
I like using shell scripts for projects like this because of the power of piping commands/functions and doing line-based processing with e.g. sed.
It is a (rare) pleasure to see a simple solution posted to HN that does not require Python or some other scripting language. Or GNU sed for that matter. I no longer have a Blackboard account, but if I did, or had a guest account to play with, I would try rewriting your Bash script in POSIX-like sh. Nice work and a good choice of project.
It actually does require sed, and either python or openssl. "Requirements bash curl sed openssl or python"
You can substitute other tcp clients for curl.
And the openssl binary is ubiquitous, so he is smart to use it for generating base64 versus other userland utilities for generating base64 that are not always found outside of GNU/Linux.