From c7620f2b96780c37b4327917dbcf47fbc4a09974 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cody Boone Ferguson <53008573+xexyl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:24:51 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add 2005/persano/try.sh

---
 2005/persano/.gitignore |  1 +
 2005/persano/README.md  |  4 ++--
 2005/persano/try.sh     | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 thanks-for-help.md      |  2 ++
 4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 2005/persano/try.sh

diff --git a/2005/persano/.gitignore b/2005/persano/.gitignore
index b47eaf316..679625f01 100644
--- a/2005/persano/.gitignore
+++ b/2005/persano/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ indent.o
 persano
 persano.orig
 prog.orig
+seal.gif
diff --git a/2005/persano/README.md b/2005/persano/README.md
index 5f7a3390f..44e755e5a 100644
--- a/2005/persano/README.md
+++ b/2005/persano/README.md
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ setting binary mode on `stdout`. See [alternate code](#alternate-code) below.
 ## Try:
 
 ```sh
-./persano 3 16 > knot3-16.gif
+./try.sh
 ```
 
-Open the [GIF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF) file with a viewer capable of
+Open the [GIF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF) files with a viewer capable of
 displaying animated GIFs and watch closely at the bottom of the picture (you may
 need to use [gifsicle](https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/) - a great tool to
 manipulate animated GIFs - to slow down the animation and to compress the GIFs
diff --git a/2005/persano/try.sh b/2005/persano/try.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..f9a45f5ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2005/persano/try.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 2005/persano
+#
+
+# make sure CC is set so that when we do make CC="$CC" it isn't empty. Doing it
+# this way allows us to have the user specify a different compiler in an easy
+# way.
+if [[ -z "$CC" ]]; then
+    CC="cc"
+fi
+
+make CC="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
+
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./persano 3 16 > knot3-16.gif: "
+echo 1>&2
+./persano 3 16 > knot3-16.gif
+echo 1>&2
+if [[ -f knot3-16.gif ]]; then
+    echo "Now open the file knot3-16.gif in a GIF viewer capable of viewing animated" 1>&2
+    echo "GIFs. See the README.md for details on a tool to manipulate it, if you wish." 1>&2
+fi
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./persano 3 2 1 > foo.gif: "
+echo 1>&2
+./persano 3 2 1 > foo.gif
+echo 1>&2
+if [[ -f foo.gif ]]; then
+    echo "Now open the file foo.gif in a GIF viewer capable of viewing animated" 1>&2
+    echo "GIFs. See the README.md for details on a tool to manipulate it, if you wish." 1>&2
+fi
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./persano 5 2 > seal.gif: "
+echo 1>&2
+./persano 5 2 > seal.gif
+echo 1>&2
+
+if [[ -f seal.gif ]]; then
+    echo "Now open seal.gif (Solomon's Seal knot) in a GIF viewer capable of viewing" 1>&2
+    echo "animated GIFs. See the README.md for details on a tool to manipulate it, if you wish." 1>&2
+fi
diff --git a/thanks-for-help.md b/thanks-for-help.md
index d3d5580a6..ce80553d1 100644
--- a/thanks-for-help.md
+++ b/thanks-for-help.md
@@ -3330,6 +3330,8 @@ code](/2005/persano/README.md#alternate-code) which should work for Windows as i
 sets binary mode on `stdout`. It is untested as Cody has no Windows system to
 test it on.
 
+Cody also added the [try.sh](/2005/persano/try.sh) script.
+
 
 ## <a name="2005_sykes"></a>[2005/sykes](/2005/sykes/sykes.c) ([README.md](/2005/sykes/README.md]))