For Programming A to Z this week we were asked to use the command line in order to compose a text:

Use a combination of the UNIX commands discussed in class (along with any other commands that you discover) to compose a text. Your “source code” for this assignment will simply consist of what you executed on the command line. Indicate what kind of source text the “program” expects, and give an example of what text it generates. Use man to discover command line options that you might not have known about (grep -i is a good one).

I wanted to transform something very recognizable into something just shy of recognizable, so I chose to use The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter as my source text. Here’s the code:

grep Peter <peter.txt | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f 3-5 | sort -r | >peteremix.txt

And here’s the result:

who was very
underneath the bushes,
to cry.
to Peter! "One
the second little
stopped running or
sorry to say
sneezed "Kertyschoo!"
not care. He
most dreadfully frightened;
jumped up and
in it. Mr.
himself up for
down very quietly
down to rest;
but Peter wriggled
beans to her
as if it
Peter and beyond
Cotton-tail and Peter.