Generate thoughts and prayers without a second thought!

thoughtsandprayers.sh

# Generate thoughts and prayers without a second thought!

RSS="`wget -qO- http://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/US.xml`"

printf "Scanning New York Times headlines...\n"

getnextxml () {
    local IFS=\>
    read -d \< ENTITY CONTENT
}

while getnextxml; do
    if [[ $ENTITY = "title" ]]; then
        TITLE=$CONTENT
        if [[ $TITLE == *"Shooting"* ]]; then
            printf "Found a mass casualty event\n"
        fi
    fi
done <<< "$RSS"

printf "Generating thoughts and prayers...\n\n"

sleep 3
L=(" " "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")
F=(15 11 1 25 0 25 15 21 0 3 1 21 7 8 20 0 13 5 0 9 0 4 9 4 14 20 0 1 3 20 21 1 12 12 25 0 23 18 9 20 5 0 1 0 18 5 1 12 0 19 3 18 9 16 20)
for i in ${!F[@]}; do
    NUM=${F[i]}
    printf "${L[NUM]}"
done