Auctores

Terminat hora diem; terminat auctor opus.

LÉAME en español

This is a pointless art project (No one said that art had to make sense.) Let a cronjob write a literary masterpiece by periodically pushing commits to a Git repository. This is a more like a study on using Bash scripts to drive git.

Requirements

• Linux or macOS (it might work on Windows using WSL2 or MSYS2; don’t ask me about it)
• GNU bash, make and date

NOTE: On macOS you must install the GNU coreutils, make and Bash using Homebrew:

brew install coreutils
brew install bash
brew install make

Configuration

Copy auctoresrc.exemplum to .auctoresrc and edit the latter.

Running the project

Run the preliminaries:

make anterem

If your environment supports cron, you can install a cronjob using:

make scribere

The cronjob will (occasionally) write to the output directory (by default ./exitum) following a pseudo-random pattern.

Or you can just manually run ./bin/scribere from time to time.

Text corpus

• “El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha” de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• “La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades” de autor anónimo
• “The Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare
• “On the Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin
• „Faust: Der Tragödie (erster und zweiter Teilen)“ von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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