jhenry/lipsum-shell

A shell script to generate lorem ipsum dummy text.

lipsum-shell

A shell script to generate lorem ipsum dummy text.

Installation

1. Clone or download the repo
2. Create a symlink from the script to your /usr/local/bin folder

   ln -s $PATH_TO_REPO/lipsum.sh /usr/local/bin/lipsum

Or run the script directly:

sh lipsum.sh

Usage

lipsum [-t] [-c] [-m|M|w|W|h|v]

# Generate 10 characters
lipsum -t characters -c 10

# Generate 10 words
lipsum -t words -c 10

# Generate 10 sentences with 8 to 12 words
lipsum -t sentences -c 10 -m 8 -M 12

# Generate 10 paragraphs with 4 to 6 sentences that are 8 to 10 words
lipsum -t paragraphs -c 10 -m 4 -M 6 -w 8 -W 10

Options

Name	Description
-t	Type of text structure to generate (see Type Keywords)
-c	Number of structures to generate
-m	Minimum number of structures to generate (applies to sentence and paragraph only)
-M	Maximum number of structures to generate (applies to sentence and paragraph only)
-w	Minimum number of words to generate per sentence (applies to paragraph only)
-W	Maximum number of words to generate per sentence (applies to paragraph only)
-v	Print version
-h	Print help

Type Keywords

Type	Keywords
Characters	characters, character, char, c
Words	words, word, w
Sentences	sentences, sentence, sent, s
Paragraphs	paragraphs, paragraph, para, p

Defaults

Type	Option	Value
Sentences	-m	4
Sentences	-M	8
Paragraphs	-m	5
Paragraphs	-M	10
Paragraphs	-w	4
Paragraphs	-W	8

License

Code released under the MIT License.