GLaDOS is "Still Alive"...in Shell!

Thanksgiving vacation was very entertaining. For me at least. I had five and a half days off from school, and over maybe two of those days, I worked for a few hours on some unfinished projects I had on my computer. I found a program based on the end of Portal that I started to write several months ago, designed to look like the terminal as GLaDOS sings “Still Alive”. Unlike the original, I was planning to sync the lyrics to the nearest syllable, to make it look like GLaDOS was typing EXACTLY as she sang. I also wanted to include the original ASCII art, including some that was never actually used. But at 7,360 lines (!), and not even one page completed (!!!), it was time to try a different approach. Mainly figuring out how to leave the cursor where I need it instead of retyping the whole screen whenever a character was added. Which helped with fixing errors, since I now only have to fix the syllable, thousands of near duplicates.

The first problem I faced with this is timing. I opened the music in audacity, typed the lyrics in a label track, and exported them. Simple enough. Now I told my program to wait the correct duration between each character. I played the song, and even though the start matched, the end didn’t. As fast as computers are, nothing is instant. Shell is slower than some other programming languages, like C, and there were so many commands executed by my program, the text was noticeably slower than the music. The command “date +%s%N” quickly became my friend, allowing me to time everything from Midnight, January 1st, 1970, in seconds with nanosecond accuracy. There’s still a delay, but not a noticeable drift. Here is the timing code, which I saved as “~/bin/PreciseWait.sh”:

StartTime=$1
EndTime=$2
Unfinished=1
while [ $Unfinished = '1' ]
    do
        CurrentTime=`date +'%s.%N'`
        ElapsedTime=`echo "$CurrentTime - $StartTime" | bc`
        Unfinished=`echo "$ElapsedTime < $EndTime" | bc`
    done

I can call this with “PreciseWait.sh [when my program started] [when to stop waiting]“. I fed this through a program I wrote to “type” for me. I used the standard escape characters (like “\n” for new line), and was forced to create my own escape characters, partly for convenience, and partly because I didn’t know how to properly handle spaces. “~/bin/type.sh” looks like this:

#program start time (seconds.nanoseconds)
ProgramStart=$1
#time to start/end text segment
TextStart=`echo "$2" | bc`
TextEnd=`echo "$3" | bc`
#text to display
Text=$4

#find real number of characters
TextLength=${#Text}
EndLength=$TextLength
for (( i = 1; i <= TextLength; i++ ))
    do
        TempText=`expr substr $Text $i 1`
        if [ $TempText = '\' ]
            then
                i=$i+1
                EndLength=`echo "$EndLength-1" | bc`
            fi
    done

#find duration of one character
CharDur=`echo "scale=9; ( $TextEnd - $TextStart ) / $EndLength" | bc` #"scale" is # of places after decimal

TextLength=${#Text}
CharEnd=$TextStart
#wait until start time
PreciseWait.sh $ProgramStart $TextStart
#start typing
for (( i = 1; i <= TextLength; i++ ))
    do
#type normal char if TRUE, escape code (real or mine) if FALSE
        NormalPrint='TRUE'
#get next character
        TempText=`expr substr $Text $i 1`
#Escape code! Get the next letter too!
        if [ $TempText = '\' ]
            then
                TempText=`expr substr $Text $i 2`
                i=$i+1
            fi
#simulate a normal backspace, "\b" is more like the left arrow key
        if [ $TempText = '\B' ]
            then
                NormalPrint='FALSE'
                echo -e -n "\b \b"
            fi
#clear the screen
        if [ $TempText = '\C' ]
            then
                NormalPrint='FALSE'
                clear
            fi
#If you know how to display a space NORMALLY, let me know @ http://nngprojects.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/glados-is-still-alive-in-shell/
        if [ $TempText = '\S' ]
            then
                NormalPrint='FALSE'
                echo -n " "
            fi
#display normal and (standard) escape characters
        if [ $NormalPrint = 'TRUE' ]
            then
                echo -n -e "$TempText"
            fi
#wait until it's time for the next character
        CharEnd=`echo "$CharEnd+$CharDur" | bc`
        PreciseWait.sh $ProgramStart $CharEnd
    done

This can be run with “type.sh [song start time] [text start time] [text end time] [text]“. The last three fields are exactly what Audacity outputs on every line of a lyric file. The first field is from the program playing the song, “~/bin/StillAlive.sh”, which is run as “StillAlive.sh”, in a full screen terminal for best effect. It looks like this:

mplayer -msglevel all=-1
echo 'Please wait a few seconds.'
echo 'Some errors will appear,   |\_/|'
echo 'the screen will clear,     |0 0|__'
echo 'and Wheatley will make     =-*-=__\'
echo 'a fool of himself.        c_c__(___)'
sleep 6
StartTime=`date +'%s.%N'`
mplayer -msglevel all=-1 ~/StillAlive.flac &
sleep 4
clear
echo -n 'wheatley@GLaDOS:~$ '
type.sh $StartTime    4.5    5.5    'powerup'
type.sh $StartTime    6    9.249029    "\CForms\SFORM-29827281-12:\nTest\SAssessment\SReport\n\n\n"
StartTime=$StartTime-10
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type.sh $StartTime    107.99486    108.237562    "I\S"
type.sh $StartTime    108.237562    108.504597    "think\S"
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type.sh $StartTime    110.902152    111.523712    "side.\n"
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type.sh $StartTime    116.985088    117.499819    "help\S"
type.sh $StartTime    117.499819    118.235733    "you.\n"
type.sh $StartTime    120.234581    120.503901    "May"
type.sh $StartTime    120.503901    120.735716    "be\S"
type.sh $StartTime    120.735716    120.967531    "Black\S"
type.sh $StartTime    120.99955    121.418333    "Me"
type.sh $StartTime    121.418333    121.90848    "sa...\n"
type.sh $StartTime    124.236373    124.432981    "THAT\S"
type.sh $StartTime    124.432981    124.73472    "WAS\S"
type.sh $StartTime    124.73472    124.867157    "A\S"
type.sh $StartTime    124.985941    125.30816    "JOKE.\S"
type.sh $StartTime    125.725952    125.996288    "HA\S"
type.sh $StartTime    125.996288    126.233856    "HA.\S"
type.sh $StartTime    126.233856    126.736299    "\B\B\B\B\B\B\B"
type.sh $StartTime    126.736299    126.861909    "FAT\S"
type.sh $StartTime    126.982059    127.656533    "CHANCE.\n"
type.sh $StartTime    129.226667    129.991253    "Any"
type.sh $StartTime    129.991253    130.695765    "way,\S"
type.sh $StartTime    130.695765    131.184555    "this\S"
type.sh $StartTime    131.184555    131.708843    "cake\S"
type.sh $StartTime    131.708843    131.987371    "is\S"
type.sh $StartTime    131.987371    132.487083    "great.\n"
type.sh $StartTime    132.487083    132.579925    "It's\S"
type.sh $StartTime    132.579925    132.915797    "so\S"
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type.sh $StartTime    133.99168    134.300245    "moist.\n"
type.sh $StartTime    134.726229    134.999296    "Look\S"
type.sh $StartTime    134.999296    135.204096    "at\S"
type.sh $StartTime    135.204096    135.717461    "me\S"
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type.sh $StartTime    136.40832    136.667733    "king\n"
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type.sh $StartTime    137.732693    138.095872    "to\S"
type.sh $StartTime    138.095872    138.557355    "do.\n"
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type.sh $StartTime    138.996992    139.245483    "I\S"
type.sh $StartTime    139.245483    139.753387    "look\S"
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type.sh $StartTime    141.401825    141.656693    "I'm\S"
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type.sh $StartTime    144.227149    144.701025    "run.\n"
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type.sh $StartTime    146.243042    146.739972    "done.\n"
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type.sh $StartTime    152.992571    153.448516    "ive.\n"
type.sh $StartTime    153.448516    154.496166    "PPS:\S"
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type.sh $StartTime    160.99723    161.501844    "ive.\n"
type.sh $StartTime    161.501844    162.733921    "\nFINAL\STHOUGHT:\n"
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type.sh $StartTime    164.747253    165.003402    "al"
type.sh $StartTime    165.003402    165.520823    "ive.\n"
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type.sh $StartTime    167.498294    167.74932    "I\S"
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type.sh $StartTime    168.989082    169.442465    "ive.\n"
type.sh $StartTime    169.442465    170.236528    "\n\n"
type.sh $StartTime    170.236528    170.75651    "STILL\S"
type.sh $StartTime    170.75651    170.976798    "A"
type.sh $StartTime    170.976798    171.417375    "LIVE"
type.sh $StartTime    171.417375    172.354881    "\C"
type.sh $StartTime    172.354881    172.78265    "STILL\S"
type.sh $StartTime    172.78265    173.028553    "A"
type.sh $StartTime    173.028553    173.449918    "LIVE\n"
echo -n 'wheatley@GLaDOS:~$ '
sleep 5
clear

So over one weekend I wrote three programs totaling 455 lines to replace 7,360 lines of unfinished code. (Keep in mind I already had the lyric file and previous knowledge from past attempts. This is at least the third try.) I’d like to add the original ASCII art, if I can get some help merging the lyrics with the art. I’d also like to replace “StillAlive.sh” with a more generic program, so does anyone know how to read line $number from a text file in shell? Post your suggestions in the comment, please.

 |\_/|
 |0 0|__
 =-*-=__\
c_c__(___)

-from the game robotfindskitten, used without permission. According to the license, I don’t need it. You should read the license before using it yourself, though.

UPDATE: Same day!

I can now export audio from audacity, with lyrics, and put both into a generic program! Now I don’t need to rewrite it! And it’s only been a week! I’ve got to thank Bruce Barnett for creating a “sed tutorial”. Now all that’s left is writing the ASCII art “lyrics”, and writing the code to merge them! (Second one’s harder. First one will probably be done today.) The program “TypeLyrics.sh” now reads:

SongFile=$1
LyricFile=$2
clear
echo 'Please wait a few seconds. |\_/|'
echo 'Some errors will appear,   |0 0|__'
echo 'the screen will clear,     =-*-=__\'
echo 'and music will then play. c_c__(___)'
echo ''
StartTime=`date +'%s.%N'`
mplayer -msglevel all=-1 $SongFile &
TotalLines=`wc -l $LyricFile | sed 's/\([0-9]*\).*/\1/'`
for (( LineNum=1; LineNum <= TotalLines; LineNum++ ))
    do
        CurrentLine=`sed "$LineNum q;d" $LyricFile`
        type.sh $StartTime $CurrentLine
    done

“StillAlive.sh” now reads:

bin/TypeLyrics.sh ~/StillAlive.flac ~/Still_Alive_labels.txt

Much simpler! Now the line count is down to 97, and only one line needs to be changed per song!

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