Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and other bash commands
&gt; You will not need to open an editor and write a long script and then to have an interpreter like Node.js to run it, sometime the bash command line is just enough you need!<p>This is a bad attitude to have for working with <i>data processing</i>, where QA is necessary and the accuracy of the output is important. A 50 LOC scraper with comments and explicitly-defined inputs and output from functions is far preferable to a 8 LOC scraper that those without bash knowledge will be unable to parse.<p>And the 8 LOC bash script is not much of a time savings as this post demonstrates; you still have to check each function output manually to find which data to parse &#x2F; handle edge cases.