Planet SoC

There’s a nifty unix command you can enter to get random futurama quotes:

curl -Is slashdot.org | egrep '^X-(F|B)' | cut -d - -f 2

Okay, so how does it work? Let’s look at what curl -Is slashdot.org returns:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:04:28 GMT

Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) modperl/1.29

SLASHLOG_DATA: shtml

X-Powered-By: Slash 2.005000198

X-Leela: I'm a millionaire! Suddenly I have an opinion about the capital gains tax.

Cache-Control: private

Pragma: private

Vary: User-Agent,Accept-Encoding

Connection: close

Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Pretty neat eh?
Now, what it does is it looks for lines that start with “X-” and contain F or B after the “X-“; thus bringing up Fry or Bender quotes only :).