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November 7, 2014 18:13
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Command-line Lorem Ipsum generator using curl, lipsum.com, and jq
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#!/bin/sh | |
AMOUNT=5 | |
WHAT=paras | |
START=false | |
while getopts ":n:wpbls" opt; do | |
case $opt in | |
n) | |
AMOUNT=$OPTARG | |
;; | |
w) | |
WHAT=words | |
;; | |
p) | |
WHAT=paras | |
;; | |
b) | |
WHAT=bytes | |
;; | |
l) | |
WHAT=lines | |
;; | |
s) | |
START=true | |
;; | |
*) | |
echo "Invalid option: -$OPTARG" >&2 | |
;; | |
esac | |
done | |
curl -s -X POST lipsum.com/feed/json -d "amount=$AMOUNT" -d "what=$WHAT" -d"start=$START" | jq -r '.feed.lipsum' |
It seems to require "lists" rather than "lines" now.
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fyi it seems to need to be https://lipsum.com now