Merge pull request #1027 from xexyl/2013-dlowe-fun

Updates and fixes to 2013/dlowe

2013/dlowe/README.md

@@ -28,6 +28,34 @@ make
 echo "sparkline of file sizes: $(wc -c * | awk '{print $1}' | xargs ./dlowe)" # or ./slen.sh
 
 ./dlowe 0 
+
+echo "sparkline of file sizes: $(wc -c * | awk '{print $1}' | xargs ./dlowe)" # or ./slen.sh
+```
+
+Alternatively, for the lazy or those short on time, try:
+
+```sh
+./demo.sh
+```
+
+What is different about the above if you do something like:
+
+```sh
+echo 'IOCCC 2013' > ioccc.txt
+./demo.sh
+rm -f ioccc.txt
+```
+
+
+To make it simpler to see try showing just the last two lines:
+
+```sh
+./demo.sh | tail -n 2 > 1.txt
+echo 'IOCCC 2013' > ioccc.txt
+./demo.sh | tail -n 2 > 2.txt
+rm -f ioccc.txt
+diff 1.txt 2.txt
+rm 1.txt 2.txt
 ```
 
 ## INABIAF - it's not a bug it's a feature! :-)

2013/dlowe/demo.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+make clobber all || exit 1
+
+echo "$ ./dlowe 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7"
+./dlowe 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+echo
+echo "$ ./dlowe 16 32 64 128"
+./dlowe 16 32 64 128
+echo
+echo "$ ./dlowe 16 32 64 128 256"
+./dlowe 16 32 64 128 256
+echo
+echo "$ ./dlowe 16 32 64 128 256 512"
+./dlowe 16 32 64 128 256 512
+echo
+echo "$ ./dlowe 0"
+./dlowe 0
+echo
+echo "$ ./slen.sh"
+./slen.sh

thanks-for-fixes.md

@@ -1626,6 +1626,9 @@ running `make all` will create a symlink to `dlowe` as `sparkl`. Running `make
 clobber` will delete both and running `make clobber all` will ensure that the
 symlink is created.
 
+Cody also added the [demo.sh](2013/dlowe/demo.sh) script to more easily try the
+program.
+
 
 ## [2013/hou](2013/hou/hou.c) ([README.md](2013/hou/README.md))