Sean Connery voice maker. <3 cloud

sean.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Sean Connery voice maker

# shhhay the word
function connify {
	word=$1
	word=$(sed -E 's/(s|ch)/shhhh/g' <<< $word)
	echo -n "$word "
}

# from http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/mthes10.zip
thesaurus='/tmp/mthesaur.txt'
if [[ ! -z $1 && -e $1 ]]; then
	thesaurus=$1
else
	echo "Using $thesaurus as default thesaurus" 1>&2
fi

while read line; do
	for word in $line; do
		# get rid of punctuation
		search_word=$(tr -d '.!&"' <<< $word)
		
		# we're good if it's already an 's' word
		if [[ ${search_word:0:1} = 's' ]]; then
			connify $word
			continue
		fi

		new_word=$(grep "^$search_word," $thesaurus)
		if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
			connify $word
			continue
		fi
		new_word=$(expr "$new_word" : '.*,\(s[^,]*\),.*')
		if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
			connify $word
			continue
		fi

		connify $new_word
	done
	echo ''
done

Hm. View raw shows proper spacing, not sure why it looks weird it quick mode :<