- Monkey typing random words.
- Geeky-looking code spam.
- Random English words from the dictionary.
My favorite is the code spam option. My best friend's fiancee took one look at my screen and said in an awed voice, "What is that?," in the same tone that one might say, "You built a nuclear reactor in your back yard!?" So I suppose all that time coding was worth it :). Read on for the script and a bit of detail on how it works.
Here's the script: The line that makes it tick is this one:
nice jot -r -s "" -c `jot -r 1 1 $line` | sed -e "s/.\{`jot -r 1 4 6`\}/ &/g" | sed -e "s/.\{`jot -r 1 4 6`\}/ &/g" | tr -d "[:cntrl:]" | sed -e "s/.\{`jot -r 1 1 $line`\}//g" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"[robg adds: This script works as described -- just remember to make it executable (chmod a+x script_name), and soon, your Terminal window can be filled with a bizarre assortment of words, gibberish, or geeky-looking code. Why one might want to run this script regularly is left as an exercise for the reader :).]

