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 ===========
 
 A bash script for updating a Scid database with the newest games from The Week in Chess
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+This script downloads the newest group of games from www.theweekinchess.com and enters them into a scid database. It can be used with cron to automatically keep your database current. 
+It also keeps a copy of each week's games in a seperate folder. These aren't needed for the database to function but may be of interest. They also provide evidence of which weeks have been downloaded.
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+By default, twic-update uses a the directory ~/Chess, a database called Database, and drops pgns into the directory ~/Chess/TWIC. These must exist for the script to function. They can be changed by editing lines 3-6 in twic_update.sh
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+twic_update requires curl and (obviously) scid.

twic_update.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
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+DIRECTORY=~/Chess
+DATABASE=Database
+SAVEDIRECTORY=TWIC
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+# The temporary name of downloaded file
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+TEMP=/tmp/twic.zip
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+# The latest week number for which a pgn file has been published
+WEEK_NUM=`curl -s http://www.theweekinchess.com/twic | grep -m 1 g.zip | sed 's/^.*twic//' | sed 's/g.zip.*//'`
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+clear
+echo "Getting TWIC #"$WEEK_NUM" from www.theweekinchess.com/twic"
+echo
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+#Gets file from online
+curl -o $TEMP "http://www.theweekinchess.com/zips/twic"$WEEK_NUM"g.zip" 
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+#Unzips file
+unzip $TEMP -d /tmp
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+#adds to SCID
+sc_import $DIRECTORY"/"$DATABASE "/tmp/twic"$WEEK_NUM".pgn"
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+#cleanup
+rm $TEMP
+mv "/tmp/twic"$WEEK_NUM".pgn" $DIRECTORY"/"$SAVEDIRECTORY