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# 2025-09-29 - Awesome Curated List of Mind Expanding Books |
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I like books, lists of books, and lists of lists of books. |
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I enjoy the Project Awesome lists and wish there were more |
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activity like that in gopherspace plus in Creative Commons |
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culture. Be the change you want to see, eh? |
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On project-awesome.org i found a list Mind Expanding Books |
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by hackerkid. I intend to post a plain text version in my |
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gopherhole. I downloaded the raw README.md from github to |
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convert. I tried Bert Bos's gf-markdown-awk script but it |
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converted the markdown tables to paragraphs. |
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I have this notion that AWK was designed for small one-off |
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scripts and not intended for a bondage & domination coding |
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style. So let's do a one-off script! |
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I decided to use curl, webdump, and awk. Webdump converts |
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table rows to tab-delimited lines. For this document, all |
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of the tables have the same header and column count. I'll |
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simply switch between printing normal lines and flattening |
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(reformatting) the table lines to fit gopher conventions. |
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Here's a link to the script. |
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flatten.awk |
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I invoke it like so: |
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$ URL=https://project-awesome.org/hackerkid/Mind-Expanding-Books |
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$ curl -s $URL | webdump | mawk -f flatten.awk >list.txt |
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You can see the results in the link below: |
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Mind Expanding Books |
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See also my other book lists: |
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List of lists of books |
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tags: book,technical |
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