Strip newlines and leading whitespace from "broken" titles, update user agent string

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/title.bash b/title.bash
index 8723ae0..27815c7 100755
--- a/title.bash
+++ b/title.bash
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 # v0.6  : switch to curl, add maximum filesize and time limits
 # v0.7  : follow HTTP redirects, was broken since switch to curl
 # v0.7.1: pretend to be Firefox, some broken websites reject cURL
+# v0.8  : strip newlines and leading whitespace from "broken" titles
+        : update user agent string
 
 read url
 
@@ -17,7 +19,7 @@ then
   echo "Usage: '!title <url>' where <url> is an http:// or https:// URL"
 elif [ "$url" == "-v" ] || [ "$url" == "--version" ]
 then
-  echo "title version 0.7.1"
+  echo "title version 0.8"
 else
-  curl --location --insecure --silent --max-filesize 1048576 --max-time 10 -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0" "$url" | sed -n -e 'H;${x;s!.*<head[^>]*>\(.*\)</head>.*!\1!I;tnext};b;:next;s!.*<title>\(.*\)</title>.*!\1!pI'
+  curl --location --insecure --silent --max-filesize 1048576 --max-time 10 -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0" "$url" | sed -n -e 'H;${x;s!.*<head[^>]*>\(.*\)</head>.*!\1!I;tnext};b;:next;s!.*<title>\(.*\)</title>.*!\1!pI' | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n//g' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//'
 fi