Streaming, a #NNNGM submission

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Streaming

Streaming is a 240-character Bash script for computers with ffmpeg documentation installed. Generated novels are around 198800 words long.

Code

MANWIDTH=140 man ffmpeg-all | tr '[:punct:]' ' ' | fold -s -w 20 | grep '[A-Za-z]' | perl -p -e "s/^/' 'x(3+rand(54))/e" | shuf | perl -p -e "s#^#($/x5).'  (wait)'.($/x5)#e if rand(99)>98" | sed '1 i\   STREAMING\n\n   Nick Montfort\n\n\n'

Also available as a file for download.

Beginning of an Example Novel

   STREAMING

   Nick Montfort

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This example novel and another are available as text files online.