divina-commandline

Divina Commandline is a word search tool for the Divine Comedy. So far, it consists of several Bash scripts which parse cantos stored as text files. The cantos were pulled from https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/ by a Bash script which extracted them from the HTML source of the website.

For those who are not familiar, a command line interface(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface) processes commands for a programming language. I began this project with the goal of making it easy to interact with the Comedy through computer terminals (with which I do most of my work), which function as a command line interface with the operating system. The name, "Divina Commandline" is thus a play on words--- a condensation of "Divine Comedy" and "command line".

Some scripts may currently be broken due to a new directory structure. They will be fixed soon.

Scripts

dd_scrape.sh

• for each canto, download the HTML source, use sed a bunch of times to remove the HTML

inf34_dd_scrape.sh

• repeat the above process for Inferno 34

Word Search

words-sort-comedy.sh

• sort each canto by its words and remove duplicates -> text file all-words-<canticle>-<number>.txt
• apply a blacklist of unnecessary words -> text file useful-words-<canticle>-<number>.txt
• highlight the five most useful words in each canto to view in a file pager highlighted-words-<canticle>-<number>.txt

find-word.sh

• ask user for a word and grep the word in each all-words-<canticle>-<number>.txt file -> text file num-<word>-per-canto.txt
• sort this output to show which cantos have the most instances of the word -> text file sorted-num-<word>-per-canto.txt

count-total.sh

• ask user for a word and sum the counts from num-<word>-per-canto.txt to get a total count of the instances of the word in the Comedy

spreadsheet-num-words.sh

• get the information from num-<word>-per-canto.txt and format it into a csv file for use in a spreadsheet program
  • csv format: Canto Number in <canticle>, Instances of <word>,, Canto Number in Comedy, Instances of <word>

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These scripts are not meant to be exact, polished, or well-commented. Please let me know of any issues.