rickhull / loremarkov

Legitimate text goes in, plausible gibberish comes out.

Introduction

Need to generate text in a hurry? This is the tool for you! With several sample texts built in, you can generate plausible sounding passages at the push of a button.

Install

$ gem install loremarkov

Lorem ipsum

$ destroy

The output will resemble this.

Usage

• As a library
• Via destroy executable

bin/destroy

• Accepts input via filename or STDIN
• Also recognizes sample texts:
  • lorem_ipsum
  • epigenetics
  • oslo_accords
• Provide a secondary parameter to control num_prefix_words

Examples

$ destroy # or destroy lorem_ipsum
$ destroy epigenetics
$ destroy oslo_accords 3
$ destroy ~/my_first_corpus.txt
$ man ls | destroy 12

Inspiration

• Based upon Kernighan & Pike's The Practice of Programming Chapter 3