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41 lines
896 B
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#!/bin/bash
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# poem.sh: Pretty-prints one of the ABS Guide author's favorite poems.
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# Lines of the poem (single stanza).
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Line[1]="I do not know which to prefer,"
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Line[2]="The beauty of inflections"
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Line[3]="Or the beauty of innuendoes,"
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Line[4]="The blackbird whistling"
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Line[5]="Or just after."
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# Note that quoting permits embedding whitespace.
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# Attribution.
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Attrib[1]=" Wallace Stevens"
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Attrib[2]="\"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird\""
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# This poem is in the Public Domain (copyright expired).
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echo
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tput bold # Bold print.
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for index in 1 2 3 4 5 # Five lines.
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do
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printf " %s\n" "${Line[index]}"
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done
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for index in 1 2 # Two attribution lines.
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do
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printf " %s\n" "${Attrib[index]}"
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done
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tput sgr0 # Reset terminal.
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# See 'tput' docs.
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echo
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exit 0
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# Exercise:
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# --------
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# Modify this script to pretty-print a poem from a text data file.
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