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est.js

var fs = require( 'fs' )
  , Levenshtein = require( 'levenshtein' ) // npm install levenshtein
  , arg = process.argv.slice( 2, process.argv.length ).join( ' ' )

String.prototype.contains = function contains( substr ) {
  return this.indexOf( substr ) >= 0
}

fs.readFile( 'Exam Study Terms.txt', function (err, data) { var terms, amount, match
  if (err)
    throw err

  terms = data.toString( 'utf8' ).split( "\n" )
  terms.pop()

  if ( arg ) {
    if ( /^\d/.test( arg ) ) {
      if ( arg.contains( '/' ) )
        amount = terms.length * ( ( arg.match( /^(\d)/ )[1] + '.0' ) / ( arg.match( /(\d)$/ )[1] + '.0' ) )
      else if ( arg.contains( '%' ) )
        amount = terms.length * ( '0.' + arg.replace( /[^\d]/, '' ) )
      else
        amount = parseInt( arg, 10 )

      amount = Math.round( amount )
      console.log( amount + ' terms of ' + terms.length )
      console.log( terms.slice( 0, amount ) )
    }
    else {
      match = terms.reduce( function( prev, current, idx, ar ) {
        var l = new Levenshtein( arg.toLowerCase(), current.toLowerCase() )
        return l < prev.distance
          ? { word: current, distance: l.distance }
          : prev
      }, { word: '', distance: Infinity })
      console.log( 'Term ' + ( terms.indexOf( match.word ) + 1 ) + ' of ' + terms.length )
      console.log( Math.round( terms.indexOf( match.word ) / terms.length * 100 ) + '% finished' )
      console.log( match.word )
    }
  }
  else {
    console.log( terms.length + ' terms' )
    console.log( terms )
  }
})

Exam Study Terms.txt

3 tenets of science: measurability, falsifiability, and repeatability
Advertising and lack/desire
Advertising as an imagined future
Analogue/Digital
Appadurai, Arjun
Baudrillard, Jean
Beaubourg
Benjamin, Walter
Bilal, Wafaa
Brand, Stewart
Broadcast
Commodity fetishism
Commodity self
Consumer culture
Copyright
Cosmopolitanism
Cultural imperialism
Culture industry
Cyborg
da Vinci, Leonardo
Debord, Guy
Deterritorialization
Diaspora
Dominguez, Ricardo/Transborder Immigrant Tool
Duchamp, Marcel (L.H.O.O.Q)
Empiricism
Ethnoscape
Felt evidence
Flaneur
Foucault
Frankfurt school
Habermas, Jurgen
Haraway, Donna
Hybridity
Hyperreality
Ideology
Ideoscape
Intertextuality
Koons, Jeff
Lee, Nicki S.
Linnaeus, Carl
Marked/Unmarked
Marx, Karl
Masses
McLuhan, Marshall
Media convergence
Mediascape
Medium
Metanarrative/Master narrative
Modernism
Modernity
Narrowcast
Noeme
Orientalism
Outsourcing
Phenomenology
Positivism
Postcolonial theory
Postmodern
Postmodernism
Postmodernity
Public
Public Sphere
Reflexivity
Reification
Reproduction
Said, Edward
Sherman, Cindy
Simulation
Spectacle
Technoscape
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Therapeutic ethos
Trademark
Transnationalism
Ultrasound
Wall, Jeff

gistfile1.txt

> node est.js frkfrt schl
Term 31 of 77
39% finished
Frankfurt school

> node est.js 1%
8 terms of 77
[ '3 tenets of science: measurability, falsifiability, and repeatability',
  'Advertising and lack/desire',
  'Advertising as an imagined future',
  'Analogue/Digital',
  'Appadurai, Arjun',
  'Baudrillard, Jean',
  'Beaubourg',
  'Benjamin, Walter' ]

> node est.js 1/9
9 terms of 77
[ '3 tenets of science: measurability, falsifiability, and repeatability',
  'Advertising and lack/desire',
  'Advertising as an imagined future',
  'Analogue/Digital',
  'Appadurai, Arjun',
  'Baudrillard, Jean',
  'Beaubourg',
  'Benjamin, Walter',
  'Bilal, Wafaa' ]