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Episode: 3748
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Title: HPR3748: The Squirrels gift to HPR
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3748/hpr3748.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 04:54:21
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,748 for Wednesday the 14th of December 2022.
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Today's show is entitled, The Squirrel's Gift to HPR.
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It is hosted by Zen Flotor 2, and is about 9 minutes long, it carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is, The Squirrels have modified Bash Potter to do something different.
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Hello boys and girls from Zen Flotor, your favorite magical forest squirrel,
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farmer human being converted into squirrel by aliens in the 1960s and atheists with another podcast.
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This time I decided to give the audience of Hacker Public Radio a free gift for Christmas.
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The squirrels have all gotten together and decided that the humans need a free gift for Christmas.
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We've never done this before. So what I did was I uh a cobble together
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a podcast collecting bunch of software that I've
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re-scripted from Bash Potter, Link Fesadans Bash Potter, that has been reworked to run under the
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Open BSD corn shell. By the way, Bash Potter will work under the corn shell or the Bash
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Shell, either one of them without any problem. So it wasn't too much work.
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And as you know, Bash Potter if you've ever used it, it collects your podcasts and stores them
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under directories, sub directories it makes that are labeled by the day it's run.
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So you'll have December 1st, December 2nd, December 3rd, December 4th and so on. Each day you run
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it, it creates a new day and it downloads the podcasts from the list in the bp.configuration file.
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As some of you may already know, it's the RSS feed information from that bp.configuration file
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and stores them daily, day by day by day. I wanted something some 14 years ago that would store
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podcasts by the originating author. And so I created a modified version of the Bash Potter
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that would store things in a sub directory that you would label out when you created the
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set the podcast up by the podcast name. For instance, I have an example here that I'm going to give you
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that you can download where I have an ARRL directory for my ham radio podcasts. I have Astrophys
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directory for Astrophys podcast. BSD now, Freedom Becripted, HPR, Linux Journal podcast,
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which has now become the reality 2.0 podcast. I just haven't renamed that. The Brothers West,
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the Lundich show which is no longer active. Brian Lundich isn't or hasn't been making any
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podcasts off of that RSS field quite some time. BSD talk which is also
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in active at the moment, maybe defunct two names. It's been quite a while. And then finally,
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Gany world order. And you'll see when you download this file, it's called, and let me just go back
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to that directory. The file I made is called Pod thing. And you untar it with the command
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tar-zxvf- or space, excuse me, pod thing. And it will untar into the directory you want to
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write it in. And you just switch down into the storage directory and then the media-guest
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directory. And frankly, you can move the media-guift directory and rename it to whatever you want,
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media or Fred or John or whatever name you want that directory to be. And move it to where
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in the machine you'd like to run it. Currently, as I say, it's written to work with the Open BSD
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Cornshell. If you happen to be a Slack user, I believe, let me just take a look at Slack builds here
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and do a search in Open BSD. I was thinking, yeah, there it is, KSH-Open BSD. They happen to have
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one ready for Slack, we're 15. You could possibly just install that and do a little tweaking
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and set it up to run so that it is the KSH that we're looking for. Or if you want to run just
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the bash shell, then you can go down into each one of the directories for the programs and you'll
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see a bash potter directory down beneath where the bash potter code is located that I've modified.
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And just change the header on the bash potter scripts to what you want, which would be
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more bash shell. You'd want to change that to pound exclamation slash bin slash bash
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on the top of each one of those bash potter shells. Again, change it back to that.
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Right now it reads pound sign exclamation slash bin slash KSH, which will activate the Open BSD KSH shell.
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And I don't remember, but I think if you're a Slackware and you install from Slack builds,
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the KSH-Open BSD, it will just show us KSH. If it doesn't, you can make a link to KSH when
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you get it installed from whatever it called it. And that should work just fine.
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The corn shell is a little more secure for running stuff like that from a Cron tab and a server.
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If you're running net BSD, of course, they have a corn shell, so you shouldn't have any problem
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with that. And you can start collecting your podcasts by in directories, by who they
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originated from rather than the way bash potter does it, which is day by day.
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Anyway, have a look at the script, how you engage it, once you set it up.
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And you shouldn't have to set this one up. You could just write it right off the bat using the
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the Cron shell command that I created called getAllPodcast, just do a dot slash getAllPodcast,
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get underscore all underscore podcast. You'll see it there at the top level of this media
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guest directory that you'll probably rename and move to somewhere else in your hard drive once
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you get it exploded. And then you can play with it. And I'm sure that some efficiencies could be
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done in the script, for instance, you could perhaps copy the bash potter shell to another directory
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and create symbol links into all these other directories to save a little disk space maybe.
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But I didn't bother to. I just copied the whole thing to a new directory. Each time I had a podcast,
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I created a directory for it. And then I just copy the bash potter shell from one of the previous
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podcasts I have been downloading into the new one. And then, of course, I get into the getAllPodcast
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script and modify it with the appropriate echo commands and stuff to to make it execute that
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script to get the podcast. And this can all be run from a Cron shell. So you could have it to go
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grab your podcast once a week if you wanted to. I'm sure there's probably a lot of other people that
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have written something similar or maybe even better in the way of text podcast gathering scripts.
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And I'd be interested in seeing them make a show on theirs, their homemade devices,
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or even criticisms or comments about this script that I made some 14 years ago. I haven't
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really modified it, as you can tell, because some of the podcasts have long since been dead.
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When I made this BSD talk was still an active podcast, so that was quite some time ago.
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But at any rate, it gives you an alternative way of collecting podcasts if you're into such things.
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If not, oh well. Best late plans of Scorland men. Thank you for listening. And
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Merry Christmas to everyone. We'll try to make another podcast here soon since we're
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sure to podcast, boys and girls. Thanks for listening. Bye from Scorland.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at HackerPublicRadio.org.
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Today's show was contributed by a HPR listener like yourself. If you ever thought of recording
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been kindly provided by an honesthost.com, the internet archive and our syncs.net.
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On the Sadois status, today's show is released under Creative Commons,
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Attribution 4.0 International License.
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