From 9c1224578330135406ddc9f461184ff1f6756c0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Hovorka <adamhovorka@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:36:27 -0600
Subject: Add some more random utilities/functions

---
 base/pr-weasel | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 base/pr-weasel

(limited to 'base/pr-weasel')

diff --git a/base/pr-weasel b/base/pr-weasel
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..052dacd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/pr-weasel
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Weasel words
+# http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/
+
+weasels="many|various|very|fairly|several|extremely\
+|exceedingly|quite|remarkably|few|surprisingly\
+|mostly|largely|huge|tiny|((are|is) a number)\
+|excellent|interestingly|significantly\
+|substantially|clearly|vast|relatively|completely"
+
+wordfile=""
+
+# Check for an alternate weasel file
+if [ -f $HOME/etc/words/weasels ]; then
+  wordfile="$HOME/etc/words/weasels"
+fi
+
+if [ -f $WORDSDIR/weasels ]; then
+  wordfile="$WORDSDIR/weasels"
+fi
+
+if [ -f words/weasels ]; then
+  wordfile="words/weasels"
+fi
+
+if [ ! "$wordfile" = "" ]; then
+  weasels="xyzabc123";
+  for w in `cat $wordfile`; do
+    weasels="$weasels|$w"
+  done
+fi
+
+if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
+  echo "Usage: `basename $0` <file> ..."
+  exit
+fi
+
+egrep -i -n --color "\\b($weasels)\\b" $*
+
+exit $?
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