Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

Let's go through the commands used to parse details of actresses from the website:

$ lynx -dump -nolist \
    http://www.johntorres.net/BoxOfficefemaleList.html
    grep -o "Rank-.*" | \
    sed -e 's/ *Rank-\([0-9]*\) *\(.*\)/\1\t\2/' | \
    sort -nk 1 > actresslist.txt

The output is as follows:

# Only 3 entries shown. All others omitted due to space limits
1   Keira Knightley 
2   Natalie Portman 
3   Monica Bellucci