Disguised Bandits, who are they?

[tsingi]

I'm killing bandits, some of them are disguised. I have a list of bounties as long as your arm and it's a pain keeping track of the provocateurs.

So I wrote a shell script. It's not rigorously tested and you probably won't get it to work on Windows, might work on a Mac. I use Linux...

#!/bin/sh

save_dir='/home/tsingi/.var/app/io.github.endless_sky.endless_sky/data/endless-sky/saves'

save_file=$save_dir/`ls -t $save_dir | head -1`

grep -A 1 'Disguised bandit' "$save_file" | grep description | cut -d ' ' -f 7- | sed -e 's/ is.*//'

~

[jafdy]

I just watch for "merchant" ships that are hanging around. Nice grep though.

[tsingi]

I like bash scripts, it's amazing what you can do with them.
Here's what I get...

the Long Ben
the Screaming Chamber
the Nightface
the Omen of Destruction
the Black Freighter
the Barrel
the Usha's Ravager
the Churning Conquest
the Galley of Plunder
the Spearmonster
the Jolly Roger

[jafdy]

You're still just selecting merchants and looking for piratey names.

[tsingi]

grep -A 1 'Disguised bandit'

The line following that line in the save file contains the name of a pirate pretending to be a merchant. -A 1 selects the matching line and the following line.

grep description

throw away the 'Disguised bandit' lines, don't want those, just the lines with their names. They match the description field.

cut -d ' ' -f 7- | sed -e 's/ is.*//'

Strips the name out by taking all space delimited fields after 7, don't know how many words are in the name so strip off the end using sed to replace it with nothing.

It does have a bug in it in that it doesn't get all of them. I'll play with it when I feel the urge.

[tsingi]

Doesn't seem to be much interest, but I've fleshed it out to get the missing bad guys. I was just searching for bandits, disguised ships can be bandits, pirates or warlords depending on how nasty they are, so this works better...

#!/bin/sh

#EDIT THIS to point to your save file directory...
save_dir='/home/tsingi/.var/app/io.github.endless_sky.endless_sky/data/endless-sky/saves'
save_file=`ls -t $save_dir | head -1`
save_path=$save_dir/$save_file

echo
echo using save file: "$save_file"
echo

listthem() {
    grep -A 1 "Disguised $badguy" "$save_path" | grep description | cut -d ' ' -f 7- | sed -e 's/ is.*//' | sed -e "s/^/$badguy /" | sort
}

for badguy in bandit pirate warlord
do
    listthem
done

echo

output example...

using save file: Harry Mudd.txt

bandit	the Fractured Hope
bandit	the Francois l'Olonnais
bandit	the Hangman's Noose
pirate	the Evil Glory
pirate	the Lady Killigrew
pirate	the Prosperous
warlord	the Angry Angels

[tuk0z]

FOSS geek fighting bandits the smart way... Nice :-)

[tsingi]

Originally posted by tuk0z:

FOSS geek fighting bandits the smart way... Nice :-)

I resemble that.