CLI Tricks: Spongebob Sarcasm in awk
Sometimes you want to turn some text
into "sarcastic Spongebob" text
so this little fragment of
awk
will make that transformation for you:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f BEGIN { srand() } { n = split($0, a, //) for (i=1; i<=n; i++) { c=a[i] printf("%c", rand() < 0.5 ? toupper(c) : tolower(c)) } print "" }
To use it, you can either invoke it directly, then copy and paste the results:
echo spongebob sarcasm | sarcasm.awk sPongEbOb SaRcasM sarcasm.awk file.txt > output.txt
Or, you can manipulate the contents of the clipboard:
xsel -ob | sarcasm.awk | xsel -ib
If you don't have
xsel
you might have
xclip
on Linux or the BSDs,
and on MacOS,
you might have
pbcopy
/pbpaste
that you can use instead.