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Mobydirect
#Twitter now allows 10k characters in a direct message
#Below is the linux commands to convert Moby dick into
#1432 10k long direct messages
#It strips the Gutenberg header and footer as reading those would be odd
wget http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2701/pg2701.txt
sed '21745,22109d' mb.txt > mb-ft.txt
sed '1,537d' mb-ft.txt > mb-tr.txt
mkdir moby10k
split -b 10000 mb-tr.txt moby10k/
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