Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/bash -

# @(#) s1       Demonstrate methods to generate random text.

echo
echo "(Versions displayed with local utility \"version\")"
version >/dev/null 2>&1 && version "=o" $(_eat $0 $1)
set -o nounset

echo
echo " Results of apg:"
apg -n 6 -M l -m 6 -x 10

echo
echo " Results of gpp:"
gpp -n 6

echo
echo " Sample of dictionary:"
sample -6 ~/etc/data/dict/words

echo
cat <<EOF

# Analyze a piece of text; one such (Chapter 1 of Moby Dick) had
# ratios of the following sentence terminators:
#
#       ".": 76%
#       "?": 17%
#       "!":  7%
#
# Similarly for length of sentences.
EOF

echo
echo " Sample of mixture:"
sentence 10 |
fmt

exit 0

% ./s1

(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
Linux 2.6.11-x1
GNU bash 2.05b.0

 Results of apg:
nubchaydna
gahognes
jonhaphous
tratharu
dikopemtyi
oorbyadeb

 Results of gpp:
ork
ulvind
indalvidst
ilk
spotchict
ifadgebs

 Sample of dictionary:
athletic
combinatorial
electroencephalogram
exhortation
junk
procedural


# Analyze a piece of text; one such (Chapter 1 of Moby Dick) had
# ratios of the following sentence terminators:
#
#       ".": 76%
#       "?": 17%
#       "!":  7%
#
# Similarly for length of sentences.

 Sample of mixture:
Opthalmic toenail clown lockstep NASA Moulton dowry Dana except.

Shall Frenchmen Mekong pupil buckwheat tonsil preeminent scopic Dirac
impost draftsmen.  Comatose insolvent bound crumy, smibsatch shutchals
Mona fife secretion?  Rail Paterson weird Gustavus aggressive successor
prong.  Kombu brutch friable comprehend pallid scandium?

Deane Leviticus pathway flack influential amphibian crochet.
Smot edgorchifte adrenal rhombus shrift shodsodgunth semaphore Elton.
Dorcas epigenetic firm olchentems clothesman brainchildren legitimate
rather Windsor srakajy struds?  Chiefdom pothole pax adolescent acceptant
irreclaimable magnetron!  Calvert Sophia collegiate clapboard Toby
empumpe figural could rouge bolt.

#!/bin/bash -

# @(#) s2       Demonstrate scrambling text.

echo
echo "(Versions displayed with local utility \"version\")"
version >/dev/null 2>&1 && version "=o" $(_eat $0 $1)
set -o nounset
echo

FILE=${1-m1}

echo " Data file $FILE:"
tail +4 $FILE |
edges

echo
echo " Results:"
tail +4 $FILE |
travesty |
fmt |
edges

exit 0

% ./s2

(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
Linux 2.6.11-x1
GNU bash 2.05b.0

 Data file m1:
     1  Call me Ishmael.  Some years ago--never mind how long precisely
     2  --having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular
     3  to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little
     4  and see the watery part of the world.  It is a way I have of
     5  driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation.
   ...
   199  flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild
   200  conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated
   201  into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid
   202  most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in
   203  the air.

 Results:
     1   in monied me Call to of crowds same rub or Providence awe them
     2  much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other
     3  things, at the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many
     4  other things, at the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many
     5  other things, at the same feelings towards the ocean with me.  There now
   ...
   334  could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the habit of going
   335  to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With
   336  a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly
   337  take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew
   338  it, almost all men in their hill-side blue. But though the picture