Bash snippets

#mount a Gutenberg CD
mount -t iso9660 PG2003-08.ISO iso -o loop

# flatten the hierarchy of a Gutenberg CD
cp $(find iso -name "*.txt") lt/corpus

# strip the corpus
for i in $(ls corpus); do < corpus/$i ./strip.py > words/$i; done
# count some words
for i in $(ls words); do < words/$i ./wordcount.py > wc/$i; done

Python snippets

# parse the master list of books in a Gutenberg CD
with open("master_list.csv") as f:
   meta = [[((title + ": " + subtitle) if subtitle else title), (ln, fn), txt] for title,subtitle,fn,ln,txt,html,catmo,catyear,lang in csv.reader(f) if lang is '' and txt is not '']d