Guide avancé d'écriture des scripts Bash - Une exploration en profondeur de l'art de la programmation shell

T. Table ASCII

Traditionnellement, un livre comme celui-ci comporte un tableau ASCII en annexe. Ce livre n'en comporte pas, mais pour remplacer voici un petit script shell qui génère une table ASCII complète et l'écrit dans le fichier ASCII.txt.

Exemple T.1. Un script qui génère une table ASCII 

#!/bin/bash
# ascii.sh
# ver. 0.2, reldate 26 Aug 2008
# Patched by ABS Guide author.

# Original script by Sebastian Arming.
# Used with permission (thanks!).

exec >ASCII.txt         #  Save stdout to file,
                        #+ as in the example scripts
                        #+ reassign-stdout.sh and upperconv.sh.

MAXNUM=256
COLUMNS=5
OCT=8
OCTSQU=64
LITTLESPACE=-3
BIGSPACE=-5

i=1 # Decimal counter
o=1 # Octal counter

while [ "$i" -lt "$MAXNUM" ]; do  # We don't have to count past 400 octal.
        paddi="    $i"
        echo -n "${paddi: $BIGSPACE}  "       # Column spacing.
        paddo="00$o"
#       echo -ne "\\${paddo: $LITTLESPACE}"   # Original.
        echo -ne "\\0${paddo: $LITTLESPACE}"  # Fixup.
#                   ^
        echo -n "     "
        if (( i % $COLUMNS == 0)); then       # New line.
           echo
        fi
        ((i++, o++))
        # The octal notation for 8 is 10, and 64 decimal is 100 octal.
        (( i % $OCT == 0))    && ((o+=2))
        (( i % $OCTSQU == 0)) && ((o+=20))
done

exit $?

# Compare this script with the "pr-asc.sh" example.
# This one handles "unprintable" characters.

# Exercise:
# Rewrite this script to use decimal numbers, rather than octal.