Re: [Infinitly OT at this stage] [ILUG] Bizarre porject names et al

From: Brian Foley (brian at domain bluetree.ie)
Date: Fri 24 Sep 1999 - 15:59:38 IST


>Anyway, now to issue a challenge - anyone want to find a connection to bring
>this <OT> (on topic that is !!)
>
>Free Associations welcome (and probably necessary !!)

Who'da thunk? First free web access, now free associations. Whats the world coming to.. :-)

Anyway, to wrest this back on topic, isn't great the way you can use a shell, and a couple of tools to put together commands like:

grep '^[qwertasdfgzxcvb]*$' /usr/dict/words | awk '{print length($0),$0;}' | sort -rn > leftlist.txt

just so you can put together some demented lefthanded sentences?

Exacerbated verterbrates rearrested streetcar deserters.
Abstracted gazes traversed a vertex as facets refracted.

All we need is someone to write an anagram generator in a line or two of perl, and we're right back where we should be.

Cheers,
Brian.



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