DRSH

I'm a long time user of Drash, an iPhone app that quickly looks up if it's going to rain or not. I've asked @inferis about a Mac version but sadly he doesn't have the time at the moment. So to scratch my own personal itch, and learn more about the exciting world of shell scripting:

  DRSH - Drash for the command line

What does it do?

 drsh Achel
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How do I install it?

drsh is a simple shell script, so drop it anywhere in your $PATH and you should be ready to go. It does have two dependencies jq and spark, but those are simple to install.

(Homebrew has them both, so brew install jq && brew install spark).

(Here's to the lazy ones. The unfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes:

 brew install https://gist.githubusercontent.com/pjaspers/6577968/raw/fb5ef7ceaa8dd661905468d588aaa1738037524d/drsh.rb

)

Or you could do: curl -O https://raw.github.com/pjaspers/drsh/master/drsh to a place in your $PATH.

What's missing?

At this point in time the bars don't actually reflect the amount of rain that will fall, I just pass the data on to spark and it assumes that the highest number I pass in is the maximum (but max is actually 255).
International support? But since I'm probably not going to need this, send me a patch if you need it.
Less dependencies. I'll admit I mainly used jq to mess around with it, I'm pretty sure we could ditch it and do some fancy grep, awk,sed and get the same results without the dependency. Likewise for spark, it would be better to just show the chance of rain if spark wasn't found.
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