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>>231880
I'm trying really hard, and I'm struggling to think of a language less appropriate for this task than bash.

Maybe befunge, but even befunge is at least designed to be interactive.

>>231889
Tell me about it, but that's the task.

I got a look at the proff's code and despite it working it looks convoluted as fuck.

>>231880
Also
>speed reading
Most people just call that "reading". If you can't read faster than you can talk, then you have a learning difficulty you need to overcome, because most people can read without needing to vocalise.

>>231892
Hey that's what they call this style of program in the assignment instructions, I didn't think it up.

>>231890
Are you allowed to call out to AWK, or are you going to have to tokenise the lines yourself?

At least the core loop is pretty straightforward:
echo \r
echo $A_BUNCH_OF_SPACES
echo \r
echo $ONE_WORD
sleep $CALCULATED_DELAY

>>231890
For tokenising, see http://stackoverflow.com/a/10586169

Other than that, it's just glue code.

>>231890
And I guess you already know this, but here's how to do arithmetic in bash: https://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Perform_arithmetic_operations

I'd work in integer numbers of microseconds, because bash sucks at floating point.

Some nice links, I'm allowed to use AWK, but I'll look into the tokenising.

Thanks.

>>231903
AWK can call sleep, so technically you could do it in AWK.

But if AWK is on the cards, then I'd probably do it like this:

- use mktemp to get a unique temporary file
- use awk to write the temp file with one word per line
- while read temp file do core loop

Alright I'll work on that.

Thanks for your help!