#!/bin/bash / Shell scripts

bash-weather is a weather report and forecast script written in Bash.

bash-weather gets the computer's public IP address through DynDNS and uses geolocation (#) to acquire its current location which is used to get weather condition and forecast from OpenWeatherMap.

Unlike other scripts on this site, bash-weather is hosted on GitHub:

• https://github.com/szantaii/bash-weather

Full README and documentation can be found on GitHub, however some basic information is available here as well.

Prerequisites:

• A terminal with a size of at least 80×22 (80 columns, 22 rows).
• bc (basic calculator) for floating point arithmetic. Can be found in the 'bc' package on major Linux distributions.
• curl command-line tool for getting data using HTTP protocol. cURL can be found in the 'curl' package on major Linux distributions.
• grep command-line tool used for parsing downloaded XML data. It can be found in the 'grep' package on major Linux distributions.
• tput for terminal handling. Can be found in different ncurses packages on Linux distributions.

Acquire and start bash-weather by entering the following commands in your terminal:

• git clone https://github.com/szantaii/bash-weather.git
• cd bash-weather
• bash bash-weather.sh