I spent a large part of today coding a script to spew meaningless text. Jill came home and I showed it to her. She of course asked me if it had any purpose? Not really, I said, but I sure learned a lot! Also, it looks really geeky in “code mode”. Yes, my script has three modes! One spits out nonsense words, one writes geeky-looking code, and the last spews random words from the dictionary.<\/p>\n
The three lines of code that I spent hours on:<\/p>\n
If you have a better way to deal with the problem or can simplify my code, please feel free to leave a comment. Note that if you run these commands you will have to replace $line with a value such as 80 or 140 (which affects line length). The third one also depends on having a dictionary file with words only in the specified location.<\/p>\n Nate and Caroline came over tonight (19 days before their wedding!). When Caroline saw the code spewing forth, she asked in kind of an awed voice, “What is that?” I guess that’s one practical use of this code; it makes you look *really* geeky to non-geeks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spent a large part of today coding a script to spew meaningless text. Jill came home and I showed it to her. She of course asked me if it had any purpose? Not really, I said, but I sure learned a lot! Also, it looks really geeky in “code mode”. Yes, my script has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nnice jot -r -n -c $line a z | rs -g | sed -e \"s\/..\\{`jot -r 1 3 6`\\}\/ &\/g\" | sed -e \"s\/..\\{`jot -r 1 3 6`\\}\/ &\/g\" | sed -e \"s\/[ ]\\{2,\\}\/ \/g\" | tr -d \"[:cntrl:]\"
\n<\/code>
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\nnice jot -r -s \"\" -c `jot -r 1 1 $line` | sed -e \"s\/.\\{`jot -r 1 4 6`\\}\/ &\/g\" | sed -e \"s\/.\\{`jot -r 1 4 6`\\}\/ &\/g\" | tr -d \"[:cntrl:]\" | sed -e \"s\/.\\{`jot -r 1 1 $line`\\}\/\/g\" | tr \"[:upper:]\" \"[:lower:]\"
\n<\/code>
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\nn=`cat \/usr\/share\/dict\/words | wc -l`; cat \/usr\/share\/dict\/words | head -`jot -r 1 1 $n` | tail -1 | tr '\\012' \" \"
\n<\/code>
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\nAs you can see, these make extensive use of the UNIX utilities jot, sed, and tr. I’ll be submitting this “hint” to macosxhints.com<\/a> and hopefully it will be published!<\/p>\n