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  1. orirawlings created this gist Apr 23, 2020.
    16 changes: 16 additions & 0 deletions backronym.awk
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    BEGIN {
    while((getline < "/usr/share/dict/words") > 0) {
    first = substr($0, 1, 1)
    wordcnts[first]++
    words[first,wordcnts[first]] = $0
    }
    srand()
    }
    {
    len = length($0)
    for (i=1; i<=len; i++) {
    l = substr($0, i, 1)
    word = words[l,int(rand()*wordcnts[l])+1]
    printf "%s%s", word, (i < len ? " " : "\n")
    }
    }