$ w3m -dump_source http://www.onelinerz.net/random-one-liners/1/ | awk ' /.*<div id=\"oneliner_[0-9].*/ {while (! /\/div/ ) { gsub("\n", ""); getline; }; gsub (/<[^>][^>]*>/, "", $0); print $0}'
Put this command in .bashrc and every time you open a new terminal a random quote will be downloaded and printed from onelinerz.net.
By altering the URL in the w3m statement you can change the output:
1 to 10 lines - http://www.onelinerz.net/random-one-liners/(number)/
20 newest lines - http://www.onelinerz.net/latest-one-liners/
Top 10 lines - http://www.onelinerz.net/top-100-funny-one-liners/
Top 10 lines are updated daily.
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