Poirot investigates

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1. SymbioteNov 2020
   Standard Ebooks is on the front page at the moment, but unfortunately doesn't have these titles. Would you particularly recommend any of the five they do have:

   - Poirot Investigates

   - The Secret Adversary

   - The Man in the Brown Suit

   - The Murder on the Links

   - The Mysterious Affair at Styles

   https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie

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2. yesenadamNov 2020
   I think this prints out title and author of every book:

     curl https://standardebooks.org/opds/all | awk '/<title>/ {split($0,a,">");split(a[2],b,"<");printf b[1]} /<name>/{split($0,a,">");split(a[2],b,"<");print " - "b[1]}' | tail -r
   

   The tail -r is to reverse the output, it's otherwise in approximately reverse alphabetical order of author's first name. Output is

     Hadji Murád - Leo Tolstoy
     Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
     The Red House Mystery - A. A. Milne
     The Moon Pool - A. Merritt
     Fables - Aesop
     Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie 
     The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie ...

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3. philsnowNov 2020
   oh very nice. My machine doesn't have a `tail -r`, but it has `tac`, which I guess does the same thing.

   I tweaked your output to put author first, to make sorting work better:

       curl -s https://standardebooks.org/opds/all | awk '/<title>/ {split($0,a,">");split(a[2],b,"<")} /<name>/{split($0,c,">");split(c[2],d,"<");print d[1]" - "b[1]}' | sort
   

   gives something like:

       A. A. Milne - The Red House Mystery
       A. Merritt - The Moon Pool
       Aesop - Fables
       Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates
       Agatha Christie - The Man in the Brown Suit
       Agatha Christie - The Murder on the Links
       Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
       Agatha Christie - The Secret Adversary
       Aldous Huxley - Antic Hay
       ...

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