Solution to Daily Programmer 264

golf.sh

awk 'NF {print $NF}' | tr a-z A-Z | tr -d .,\"—\; |
xargs -n 1 -I % grep '^% ' cmudict-0.7b |
perl -lne 'if (/.*\b((AA|AE|AH|AO|AW|AY|EH|ER|EY|IH|IY|OW|OY|UH|UW).*)/) {print $1}' |
tr -d 0-9 | awk 'BEGIN{i=1} !seen[$0] {seen[$0]=i++} {print seen[$0]}' | tr 1-9 a-j | tr -d '\n'

solution.sh

last-words() {
    awk 'NF {print $NF}' | tr a-z A-Z | tr -d .,\"—\;
}

pronunciations() {
    xargs -n 1 -I % grep '^% ' cmudict-0.7b
}

rhyme-endings() {
    perl -lne 'if (/.*\b((AA|AE|AH|AO|AW|AY|EH|ER|EY|IH|IY|OW|OY|UH|UW).*)/) {print $1}'
}

rhyme-scheme() {
    tr -d 0-9 | awk 'BEGIN{i=1} !seen[$0] {seen[$0]=i++} {print seen[$0]}' | tr 1-9 a-j | tr -d '\n'
}

last-words | pronunciations | rhyme-endings | rhyme-scheme