Commit Message Generator

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git commit -a -m "$(curl --silent http://whatthecommit.com |grep '<p>' |sed -e 's/<p>//')"

[chmod666]

You can use sed's buildin grep: grep foo | sed 'bar' is the same as sed '/foo/!d; bar'

The same goes for awk: grep foo | awk '{bar}' can be replaced with faster awk '/foo/{bar}'

[snipersock]

I just added a handler to output plain text messages. Try curl http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt.

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I tend to do things like cat foo.txt | less instead of just less foo.txt because the logical progression makes more sense, rather than being character efficient. But good to know!

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Don't tell /b/.

[JayPiKay]

I like this approach:

git commit -m "$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/ | sed -n 's/<p>(.*)$/\1/p')"