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proofreading scripts

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 2+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 3+#
 4+# script to detect passive voice in a file
 5+#
 6+# inspired by the below blog post:
 7+# https://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/
 8+
 9+# vars
10+passive_word_dir="$HOME/.config/wordfiles"
11+passive_word_file="$passive_word_dir/passive"
12+
13+# basic functions
14+usage_help() {
15+	echo "Usage: passive [FILE]"
16+	exit 1
17+}
18+
19+gum_echo() {
20+	gum style --foreground "#f4b8e4" "$@"
21+}
22+
23+die() {
24+    printf "%s\n" "$1"
25+    exit 1
26+}
27+
28+# check if word file exists
29+wordfile_check() {
30+	[[ -f "$passive_word_file" ]] || die "passive word file does not exist"
31+}
32+
33+# cat the word file into a var
34+words=$(wordfile_check && cat "$passive_word_file")
35+
36+# print help if no args
37+if [[ "$#" -eq 0 ]]; then
38+	usage_help
39+fi
40+
41+# do the thing
42+gum_echo "weasel words found:"
43+grep -E -n -i --color "\\b(am|are|were|being|is|been|was|be)\ \\b[ ]*(\w+ed|($words))\\b" "$*"

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 2+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 3+#
 4+# script to detect weasel words in a file
 5+#
 6+# inspired by the below blog post:
 7+# https://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/
 8+
 9+# vars
10+weasel_word_dir="$HOME/.config/wordfiles"
11+weasel_word_file="$weasel_word_dir/weasel"
12+
13+# basic functions
14+usage_help() {
15+	echo "Usage: weasel [FILE]"
16+	exit 1
17+}
18+
19+gum_echo() {
20+	gum style --foreground "#f4b8e4" "$@"
21+}
22+
23+die() {
24+    printf "%s\n" "$1"
25+    exit 1
26+}
27+
28+# check if word file exists
29+wordfile_check() {
30+	[[ -f "$weasel_word_file" ]] || die "weasel word file does not exist"
31+}
32+
33+# cat the word file into a var
34+words=$(wordfile_check && cat "$weasel_word_file")
35+
36+# print help if no args
37+if [[ "$#" -eq 0 ]]; then
38+	usage_help
39+fi
40+
41+# do the thing
42+gum_echo "weasel words found:"
43+grep -E -i -n --color "\\b($words)\\b" "$*"