I know, it's only AWKward, but I like it...

By -

A nice little Awk program that generates git directories per language based on the contents of two files:

BEGIN {
    file="langs.txt"; 
    while((getline < file ) > 0 ) { 
        langs[$1] = 1  # record each language
    }   
}

/^$/ { }     # blank lines allowed

/^\;/ { }    # allows comments in the chapter file

/^[IVXCM]/ { } # skip the major section names

/^[0-9]/ {
    print $2
    for( lang in langs ) { 
        new_dir = lang "/" $2
        if (system( "[ -d " new_dir " ] ") == 0)
            print new_dir " already exists."
        else {
            print "We are going to add " new_dir
            if (system( "mkdir " new_dir) == 0) {
                system( "touch " new_dir "/README")
                system( "git add " new_dir "/README")    
            }   
        }   
    }   

}

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Libertarians, My Libertarians!

By -
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas --  unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Read more

"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness

By -
 I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
Read more