Great!

I made it more suitable to launch in Windows...

(more graphical)

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NOTICE

As remembered later by radiantmatrix adding the following code will break the 'minimalistic' style required for adding it to cookies or other pieces of text that people use to do. It even makes the text longer... So, use it at your own discretion. Or add it as a second pipe like...
cat header.txt $(perl tao.pl --today)
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:) I'm sorry, radiantmatrix ... It wasn't my intention to change the spirit of your script. I should have noticed your purpose of leaving the output so alone :). I was only wanting to see it more friendly. And didn't imagine it inside another thing...

I changed the help's heading...

  
       __.....-..        +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+
    _,'       `\ `-.      |D|a|i|l|y| |T|a|o| |t|e| |C|h|i|n|g|
   /     /['\   |   \      +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+
 .'      `.:/  .'    L   O-----------------------------------O
 |            ,'     |   |     Tao Te Ching (TTC) from:      |
 |      ,---''        |  |http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ |
 |    ,'             |   |   ~phalsall/texts/taote-v4.html   |
 `.  |    ,.         /   |                                   |
   \ `    ,.'       /     |  See the file license.txt after   |
    '`           _,'     |  first run for the GNL license.   |
       '--. _..-'        O-----------------------------------O
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And added a --B-today option to show with a banner as heading... With tkmore!

sub daily_tao 
{
  my $banner      = shift;## NEW OPTION TO ADD A HEADER WITH THE TITLE
 
...
  print <<HEAD if ($banner);
       __.....-..
    _,'       `\ `-.
   /     /['\   |   \          +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+
 .'      `.:/  .'    .       |D|a|i|l|y| |T|a|o|
 |            ,'      |      +-+-+   +-+-+-+-+-+
 |      ,---''        |      |T|e|   |C|h|i|n|g|
 |    ,'              |      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+
 `.  |    ,.         /       |p|r|i|n|t|e|r| |@|
   \ `    ,.'       /         +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+
    '`           _,'
       '--. _..-'
HEAD
  printf "%s: %s\n%s", @{ $chapter[$day_index] };
 ...
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And the option...

...
  'today'              => \&daily_tao,
  'B-today'          => \&daily_tao(1),            ## ADDS A BANNER
...
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Then, I could also call it...

perl tao.pl --B-today | tkmore -
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Or in LINUX...

perl tao.pl --B-today | perl -e'while (<>){print($_,$/) if ($_=~s/^/  
+/ && $_=~s/[\r\n]//g)}'|  Xdialog --rc-file ~/.ocrebox.rc --title="To
+day's TAO" --textbox - 0 0 &
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Thank you for your nice script!

I adjusted the ASCII-art to display well in my non monospaced screen....

Landlords production is only eaten by landlords...
Wherever I lay my KNOPPIX disk, a new FREE LINUX nation could be established

In reply to Re: Get your Daily Tao Te Ching fix by chanio
in thread Get your Daily Tao Te Ching fix by radiantmatrix

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