On 2019 Mar 18 17:25:58, you wrote to me:

 DR> I'll probably post 50 random taglines in each post. Gotta keep people
 DR> wanting more... :)

here's my posting script... it breaks the input file out into separate
files for posting... it is using hpt on this system to create the posts
from the individual files... the NUMLINES variable at the top is the number
of lines per file the input file will be broken into... as with the
previous script, it expects the input file's extension to be .txt...

this one is 59 lines long and i know that wordwrap will bite it fairly
hard... hopefully it won't be so bad it can't be fixed...

==== Begin "posttaglines"  ====
#! /bin/bash

NUMLINES=500

printf "\n"

printhelp() {
  printf "just tell me the tagline file to post (without extension)\n"
  printf "and the base file name of the parts to be posted.\n"
  printf "\n"
  printf "eg: posttaglines alltags.sorted.uniq foo\n"
  exit
}

case "$1" in
  ""       ) printf "ERROR: no tagline filename given.\n";
             printhelp;;
esac

case "$2" in
  ""       ) printf "ERROR: no base parts filename given.\n";
             printhelp;;
esac

if [ ! -e $1.txt ]
then
  printf "ERROR: file $1.txt not found.\n"
  printhelp
fi

if [[ -e $2aa ]]
then
  printf "Cleaning up previous $(ls -l $2* | wc -l | cut -d"
" -f1) $2* files\n"
  rm $2*
fi

printf "$(wc -l $1.txt | cut -d" " -f1) lines in $1.txt\n"
printf "splitting into files containing $NUMLINES lines each\n"
split -l $NUMLINES $1.txt $2
TOTALFILES=$(ls -l $2* | wc -l | cut -d" " -f1)
printf "$TOTALFILES $2* files to post\n"

COUNTER=0
for a in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
do
  for b in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
  do
    if [ ! -e $2$a$b ]
    then
      break
    fi
    ((COUNTER++))
    printf "posting file $COUNTER of $TOTALFILES - $2$a$b - $(wc -c
$2$a$b | cut -d" " -f1) bytes\n"
    printf "hpt post -nf \"mark lewis\" -af
\"1:3634/12.73\" -nt \"all\" -at
\"1:3634/12.73\" -s \"[AUTOPOST] Taglines $COUNTER of
$TOTALFILES (max $NUMLINES lines per post)\" -e \"taglines\"
-o \"\" -f loc $2$a$b\n"
    ~/fido/bin/hpt post -nf "mark lewis" -af
"1:3634/12.73" -nt "all" -at "1:3634/12.73"
-s "[AUTOPOST] Taglines $COUNTER of $TOTALFILES (max $NUMLINES lines
per post)" -e "taglines" -o "" -f loc $2$a$b
  done
done

printf "\n"
==== End "posttaglines" ====

)\/(ark

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