2022-03-23
___l_i_t_e_r_a_t_u_r_e__c_l_o_c_k____________________________________

I have been marvelling at the literature clock [0] idea for quite a
while. Then I found the source code [1] and thought whether that
could be done in a small shell script. 

Turns out it does:

```
#!/usr/bin/env bash

URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JohannesNE/literature-clock/master/litclock_annotated.csv"

time_file+=$HOME/.litclock_annotated.csv

if [ ! -f "$time_file" ]; then
        curl $URL -o "$time_file"
fi


while true;
do
        clear
        awk 'BEGIN {
                FS = "|";
                results=0;
                srand();
                time = strftime("%H:%M") };
            $0~time{
                sub($2, "\033[1m"$2"\033[0m",$3);
                res[results++]=$3"\n\n"$4" -- "$5 };
            END {
              l=int(rand()*results);
              print res[l]}' "$time_file" | fmt
        sleep 10;
done
```

I am sure it can be done a bit cleaner but it works for me right now.
Tell me about it!




___References________________________________________________________

[0]: https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com/
[1]: https://github.com/JohannesNE/literature-clock