I need a way to export out the raw article text and feed it to a shell script... My PHP programming experience is a little limited.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php

Beware of script injection hacks. If you do this on pages that are open to arbitrary editing, some trickster could possibly delete any file that your web server effective user ID has permission to delete, or cause no end of other trouble.

:::: Trusting to escape scrutiny, by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory -- that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood -- that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy -- he plunged into war -- Abraham Lincoln on President Polk :::: :::: Jan Steinman http://www.EcoReality.org ::::