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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk diamond code golf (just for fun!) Post 302986573 by RudiC on Sunday 27th of November 2016 02:24:59 PM

11-27-2016

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Interesting effect when applied to Don Cragun's text example:

Code:

awk -vW=30 -vL="Happy New Year" 'BEGIN{for(i=k=1;i>=1;i+=k) {printf("%*.*s\n",(W/2)+i,i*2-1,L);if(i>=W/2)k=-1}}'
               H
              Hap
             Happy
            Happy N
           Happy New
          Happy New Y
         Happy New Yea
         Happy New Year
          Happy New Year
           Happy New Year
            Happy New Year
             Happy New Year
              Happy New Year
               Happy New Year
                Happy New Year
               Happy New Year
              Happy New Year
             Happy New Year
            Happy New Year
           Happy New Year
          Happy New Year
         Happy New Year
         Happy New Yea
          Happy New Y
           Happy New
            Happy N
             Happy
              Hap
               H

EDIT: Try this:

Code:

awk -vW=30 '-vL=Happy New Year' 'BEGIN{for(i=k=1;i>=1;i+=k) {while(length(L)<W)L=L" "L;printf("%*.*s\n",(W/2)+i,i*2-1,L);if(i>=W/2)k=-1}}'

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

sbus

SBUS(4) 						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						   SBUS(4)

NAME

     SBus -- introduction to machine-independent SBus bus support and drivers

SYNOPSIS

     sbus* at mainbus?
     sbus* at iommu?
     sbus* at xbox?

     These
     SBus attachments are specific to the NetBSD/sparc and NetBSD/sparc64 ports.

DESCRIPTION

     SBus is a I/O interconnect bus mostly found in SPARC workstations and small to medium server class systems.  It supports both on-board
     peripherals and extension boards.	The SBus specifications define the bus protocol as well as the electrical and mechanical properties of the
     extension slots.

HARDWARE

     NetBSD includes machine-independent SBus drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:

   SCSI interfaces
	   esp	     NCR53c94 and compatible SCSI interfaces.

	   isp	     Qlogic SCSI interfaces.

   Network interfaces
	   le	     Lance 7990 series Ethernet interfaces.

	   hme	     ``Happy Meal'' Ethernet interfaces.

	   en	     Midway-based Efficient Networks Inc. and Adaptec ATM interfaces.

	   be	     ``Big Mac'' Ethernet board.

	   qe	     Quad Ethernet Controller board.

   Bridges
	   xbox      an Sbus expansion box.

   Graphics devices
	   bwtwo     framebuffer device.

	   cgthree   framebuffer device.

	   cgsix     framebuffer device.

	   pnozz     framebuffer device.

	   tcx	     framebuffer device.

	   zx	     framebuffer device.

   Audio devices
	   audiocs   CS4231 codec.

   Serial interfaces
	   magma     Magma Serial/Parallel combo device.

   Floppy interfaces
	   fdc	     Floppy disk controller

SEE ALSO

     audiocs(4), be(4), bwtwo(4), cgsix(4), cgthree(4), en(4), esp(4), fdc(4), hme(4), intro(4), isp(4), le(4), magma(4), pnozz(4), qe(4), tcx(4),
     xbox(4), zx(4)

HISTORY

     The machine-independent SBus subsystem appeared in NetBSD 1.3.

BSD
								  January 7, 2009							       BSD