flewless ponysay -l

Makefile

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ install: all
 	mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/"
 	install "ponysay" "$(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/ponysay"
 	install -s "ponysaytruncater" "$(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/ponysaytruncater"
+	install "ponysaylist.pl" "$(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/ponysaylist.pl"
 	ln -sf "ponysay" "$(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/ponythink"
 
 	mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/"
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ uninstall:
 	rm -fr "$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/ponysay/ponies"
 	rm -fr "$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/ponysay/ttyponies"
 	unlink "$(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/ponysay"
+	unlink "$(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/ponysaylist.pl"
 	unlink "$(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/ponysaytruncater"
 	unlink "$(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/ponythink"
 	unlink "$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_ponysay";

README

@@ -25,10 +25,12 @@ Required runtime dependencies
 
     cowsay    : this is a wrapper for cowsay
 
-    coreutils : the main script [file: ponysay] uses stty, cut, ls, cat, head and tail
+    coreutils : the main script [file: ponysay] uses stty, cut, ls, cat, sort, head and tail
 
     sed       : used to remove .pony from pony named when running ponysay -l
 
+    perl      : required to run ponysay -l
+
 
 Optional runtime dependencies
 =============================

README.md

@@ -70,10 +70,12 @@ Dependencies
 
 `cowsay`: this is a wrapper for cowsay
 
-`coreutils`: the main script uses stty, cut, ls, cat, head and tail
+`coreutils`: the main script uses stty, cut, ls, cat, sort, head and tail
 
 `sed`: used to remove .pony from pony named when running `ponysay -l`
 
+`perl`: required to run `ponysay -l`
+
 ### Package building dependencies
 
 `gcc`: used for compiling ponysaytruncater.c

ponysay

@@ -20,28 +20,15 @@ version() {
 
 list() {
     scrw=`(stty size <&2 || echo 0 0) | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
-    (( $scrw > 80 )) && scrw=80
+    
+    listcmd=$(echo $0 | sed -e 's/\/ponysay$/\//g' -e 's/\/ponythink$/\//g')"ponysaylist.pl"
     
     echo -e "\\e[01mponyfiles located in $SYSTEMPONIES:\\e[21m"
-    files=`ls -1 $SYSTEMPONIES | sed "s/.pony//"`
+    perl $listcmd $scrw $(ls --color=no $SYSTEMPONIES | sed "s/.pony//" | sort)
-    maxw=1
-    for file in $files; do
-	w=$(( `echo $file | wc -m` + 2 ))
-	(( $maxw < $w )) && maxw=$w
-    done
-    cols=$(( $scrw / $maxw ))
-    echo "$files" | pr -T --columns=$cols
     
     if [[ -d $HOMEPONIES ]]; then
 	echo -e "\\e[01mponyfiles located in $HOMEPONIES:\\e[21m"
-	files=`ls -1 $HOMEPONIES | sed "s/.pony//"`
+	perl $listcmd $scrw $(ls --color=no $HOMEPONIES | sed "s/.pony//" | sort)
-	maxw=1
-	for file in $files; do
-	    w=$(( `echo $file | wc -m` ))
-	    (( $maxw < $w )) && maxw=$w
-	done
-	cols=$(( $scrw / $maxw ))
-	echo "$files" | pr -T --columns=$cols
     fi
 }
 

ponysaylist.pl

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# ponysaylist
+# Prints a list of ponies in columns
+# 
+# Licensed under WTFPL
+# See COPYING for details
+
+# Author: Mattias Andrée, maandree@kth.se
+
+
+$first = 1;
+$scrw = 1;
+$maxw = 1;
+
+foreach $arg (@ARGV)
+{
+    if ($first == 1)
+    {   $first = 0;
+	$scrw = $arg;
+    }
+    else
+    {   $w = length $arg;
+	$maxw = $w if ($w > $maxw);
+    }
+}
+
+$cols = int (($scrw + 2) / ($maxw + 2));
+$cols = 1 if ($cols < 1);
+
+
+@list = ();
+
+$first = 1;
+$items = 0;
+foreach $arg (@ARGV)
+{
+    if ($first == 1)
+    {   $first = 0;
+    }
+    else
+    {   $ws = $maxw - (length $arg);
+	push @list, $arg.(" "x$ws);
+	$items += 1;
+    }
+}
+
+
+$rows = int (($items + $cols - 1) / $cols);
+$i = 0;
+@rowlist = ();
+
+while ($i < $items)
+{   $row = 0;
+    while (($row < $rows) and ($i < $items))
+    {
+	$rowlist[$row] .= "  " unless ($i < $rows);
+	$rowlist[$row] .= $list[$i];
+	$row += 1;
+	$i += 1;
+}   }
+
+foreach $row (@rowlist)
+{
+    print $row."\n";
+}
+