Getting ready

Besides having a terminal open, several large text files are needed for this recipe. If you have some already, great; if not, install the following:

$ wget http://www.randomtext.me/download/txt/lorem/ol-20/98-98.txt$ fmt 98-98.txt > loremipsum.txt
The fmt command is a simple optimal text formatter. It is used to clean up the output a bit for better results on the command line.

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