generate a Thesaurus for bash commands and their corresponding flags.

bashThesaurus.sh

                        #!/bin/bash
# File          : bashthesaurus.sh
# Author        : Henrik Lindgren
# Description   : create a thesaurus like a teeRex
# Last Modified : 2016-06-03

tempfile=/tmp/binFiles
mkShellThesaurus(){
    #NOTE: this function will wreck havoc if invoked so dont waste your time.
    #TODO: make this script less tyranic 
    find /usr/local/bin/ /bin/ -type f | sort | uniq | grep -oE '[^ /]+$' > "$tempfile"
    [ -f ./teeRexSaurius ] && mv teeRexSaurius teeRexSaurius.bak

    while read -r file ;do
        echo -n "$file" >> ./teeRexSaurius
        echo -n "$(man "$file" | grep -oE '^\s+[-][-]?[^, ]*' |tr '\n' ' ')" >> ./teeRexSaurius
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
            echo -n "$("$file" --help | grep -oE '^\s+[-][-]?[^, ]*' |tr '\n' ' ')" >> ./teeRexSaurius
        fi
        #add EOL
        echo ' '>> ./teeRexSaurius
    done < "$tempfile"
    sed -ir 's/\s\+/ /g' ./teeRexSaurius
    sed -ri 's/^\s*$//g' ./teeRexSaurius
}


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