something for http://code-poems.com/

racing numbers

#!/bin/bash

# not an original poem,
# no known author,
# no known copyright,
# aesthetics over originality?

_..() { .._  ${@//[tt]?[^s]/2};}
__.() { echo -ne $@' '        ;}
one() { __. '1' && _.. $@     ;}
and() { __. '&' && _.. $@     ;}
two() { __. '2' && _.. $@     ;}
.__() { echo -ne $@\\n        ;}
.._() { .__  ${@//[ow]?[^s]/1};}

one one was a racehorse
two two was one too
one day one one won one race
and two two won one too

to view:

curl "https://raw.github.com/gist/1953545/95d5b5f1796abd471ccd15ab4d62c9e67041ee20/racing%20numbers" 2>/dev/null | /bin/bash