sithquote

[DebianJoe]

I got tired of seeing the infamous "Color Boxes" while playing with all these recent terminal color tools, so I made up a fun little tool for cycling through escape sequences.



You can get it with git, wget, curl, or just copy and paste (just one little file).
https://raw.github.com/DebianJoe/sithqu ... ithquote.c

Usage is easy. Build it (no links, just "make sithquote" or "gcc sithquote.c -o sithquote", and put the binary wherever you want (in /usr/bin for global use, or a conveniently located directory somewhere in your PATH if you're Rho) to run it.

If you run it without arguments, it returns a quote from a Sith Lord from Star Wars.
If you want to feed it specific info, just run it with what you want in quotations afterwards:

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$ sithquote "Whatever artistic BS I feel like seeing quoted"

[machinebacon]

Pure fun! Thanks Sire!

Now people want to have a custom.quotes file that can be fed via -a option ;)

[dkeg]

haha, that's cool man!

[DebianJoe]

Sure, we can do a custom file reading. It's something I hacked out at breaks while I was at work. I'll put some more options in there just for fun when I get some time.

[rhowaldt]

sure, now i wanna pipe the Tao and Apprentice Poetry through this thing ;)

[machinebacon]

^ flashback moment ;)

[DebianJoe]

Give me a day or so, I'll have it able to accept either pipes or have a file to be opened and read a random line from.

I guess I'll set pipes to be the default behavior and use quotes only if specified...but I'm keeping the Sith quotes in there. ;)

[machinebacon]

Somewhat related:

1) add quotes to /usr/local/share/quotes without a newline at the end

2) /usr/local/bin/sithquoter

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#!/bin/bash
FILE=/usr/local/share/quotes
head -$((${RANDOM} % `wc -l < $FILE` + 1)) $FILE | tail -1 | sed 's/.*/\"&\"/g' | xargs sithquote

[rhowaldt]

^^ default quotes are important to have. plus, if you remove the Sith quotes, then you lose your app's title! can't be done.

[DebianJoe]

Since MB wrote such an elegant way to use whatever file you want to insert quotes....here's an easy way to make the same system take pipes. Make this your piped quote program.

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#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    int c, i = 0;
    c = getchar();
    while (c != EOF) {
        putchar(c);
	printf("\033[1;3%dm", i++);
        c = getchar();
	if(i == 8){i = 0;}
    }
    printf("\033[1;m\n");
    return 0;
}

I don't see the point in rewriting everything to handle a different flow when this is such a short answer. (If you put it somewhere in yo' PATH, you don't need the ~/path/to/binary in the pipe...but I'm being lazy.)

Enjoy.

[rhowaldt]

hahaha, very nice! great little tool, i love this stuff :)

[DebianJoe]

Okay, just because I can't just NOT do something, here's how the more recent version works.

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sithquote

^^Sets up a "free-flow" mode that will accept being piped into. If you run the program without a pipe, it goes into a passive typing mode, where every time you type something and hit "enter" it will colorize it. Ctrl^d will break the loop.

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sithquote -q

Generates pseudo-random sith quote

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sithquote -c "Whatever I feel like writing"

Allows user to specify a custom string to be processed.

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sithquote -a

Reads from a user-specified file and picks a pseudo-random LINE from the file to be processed. In the code, before you build it, there's a line with a bunch of comments all around it...almost at the very top. Change this line to give the full path to your customized file.

Edit: This was a hell of a lot of fun to program, because of all of the different directions that input could come from, and twin-iterating loops, and trying to handle some fake-randomness. I tried to make it reasonably fast by only allocating memory for whatever was being done.

# On my laptop #
time dmesg | sithquote
dmesg 0.01s user 0.00s system 70% cpu 0.011 total
./sithquote/sithquote 0.01s user 0.01s system 52% cpu 0.031 total
#

0.01 seconds to process dmesg...hell yes!

[dkeg]

love it joe! I was thinking if there is a way to pass different fonts to the output so has larger fonts for clearer distinction.

[DebianJoe]

Sure dkeg

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sithquote -q | figlet

....but seriously, I'm not preprocessing stdin at all for the pipes, which would mean setting the font for each character to make it work as you've asked. It would be possible with some major additions, but not really reasonable for how it is currently written. You could always change the bold to non-bold escapes under the processing function to be "\033[0;31m", "\033[0;3%dm", and "\033[0;m" respectively. This would probably make the font more readable....but I probably need to change the loop to avoid c0, because black on black tends to not show up in many themes.

Give me a few minutes, I can write you a patch to try it to see if you like it.

Edit: Try this out...looks a bit cleaner:

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22c22,23
<       int c, i = 0;                                                                       
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>       int c;                                                                              
>       int i = 0;                                                                          
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<           printf("\033[1;3%dm", i++);                                                     
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>           printf("\033[0;3%dm", i++);                                                     
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<           if(i == 8){i = 0;}                                                              
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>           if(i == 8){i = 1;}                                                              
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<     printf("\033[1;m\n");                                                                 
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>     printf("\033[0;m\n");                                                                 
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<       printf("\033[1;3%dm", i++);                                                         
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>       printf("\033[0;3%dm", i++);                                                         
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<           i = 0;                                                                          
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>           i = 2;                                                                          
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<     printf("\033[1;m\n");                                                                 
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>     printf("\033[0;m\n");                                                                 

Copy the above to a file, call it "dkeg.patch" and use

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patch sithquote.c < dkeg.patch

Which will let you try it out if you want. If you don't like it, you could then just use a hard reset to the git repo.

[dkeg]

No worries Joe, I was really just thinking aloud. I definitely don't want to push more work on you. I'm in a class today, but I'll check it out tonight. Again, no worries man, its good as it is, not meaning to seem like a douche : D

[DebianJoe]

No problem at all, I'm just having fun with this. The patch does seem to make the text more readable, so I may push it as an option with instructions for applying it. It's really dependent on how the original theme looks as to what is best, though. Let me know what you think when you get time.

Edit: pushed it, so you can get it via a git pull. Use whichever works better.

[dkeg]

Hey Joe, morning, I cloned the latest and applied the patch. It all worked fine, I'm not seeing much of a difference though. My process was
first clean house, removed the original from /usr/bin
clone
apply patch
builid
copy to /usr/bin/

did I miss / mess something. It works great, just wasn't sure what diff I should see.

[DebianJoe]

It should have un-bolded the text, which on my system did make it more readable due to the font I use. That's really the only thing that the patch does.

I'll put some more thought into it later, and perhaps there's a better way to make it significantly more readable that won't force me into converting things into true strings. I'm up to my ears in projects right now, though, so it may be a bit.

[dkeg]

okay, okay then yes it is much more readable. But now you say that I definitely can see the difference. Sorry, being an idiot this morning ....
It's my fault too, I have my terminal font set at mono 7 :D

Yeah, no worries Joe, like I said it is awesome the way it is.

[DebianJoe]

No worries at all. Thanks for playing with my toys. :D

I've got a few irons in the fire right now, and hopefully some of them will actually be useful. (Speaking of, if anyone who wants to try their hand at some hardcore C or Python...message me, I'll put you to work.) ;)