new options, ponysay -L, just like ponysay -l but puts symlinks inside brackets after their targets, I also edited Makefile to preserve symlinks

Makefile

@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ install: all
 	mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/ponysay/"
 	mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/ponysay/ponies"
 	mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/ponysay/ttyponies"
-	cp ponies/*.pony "$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/ponysay/ponies/"
-	cp ttyponies/*.pony "$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/ponysay/ttyponies/"
+	cp -P ponies/*.pony "$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/ponysay/ponies/"
+	cp -P ttyponies/*.pony "$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/ponysay/ttyponies/"
 
 	mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/"
 	install "ponysay" "$(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/ponysay"

README

@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ Required runtime dependencies
 
     cowsay    : this is a wrapper for cowsay
 
-    coreutils : the main script [file: ponysay] uses stty, cut, ls, cat, sort, head and tail
+    coreutils : the main script [file: ponysay] uses stty, cut, ls, cat, sort, readlink, head and tail
 
-    sed       : used to remove .pony from pony named when running ponysay -l
+    sed       : used to remove .pony from pony named when running `ponysay -l` and `ponysay -L`
 
-    perl      : required to run ponysay -l
+    perl      : required to run `ponysay -l` and `ponysay -L`
 
 
 Optional runtime dependencies

README.md

@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ Dependencies
 
 `cowsay`: this is a wrapper for cowsay
 
-`coreutils`: the main script uses stty, cut, ls, cat, sort, head and tail
+`coreutils`: the main script uses stty, cut, ls, cat, sort, readlink, head and tail
 
-`sed`: used to remove .pony from pony named when running `ponysay -l`
+`sed`: used to remove .pony from pony named when running `ponysay -l` and `ponysay -l`
 
-`perl`: required to run `ponysay -l`
+`perl`: required to run `ponysay -l` and `ponysay -L`
 
 ### Package building dependencies
 

manuals/manpage.6

@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ Show version of program.
 .B \-l
 List pony files.
 .TP
+.B \-L
+List pony files with synonyms inside brackets.
+.TP
 .B \-f \fIname\fP
 Select a pony (either a file name or a pony name), you can use this options multiple times,
 and one of the will be selected randomly.

ponysay

@@ -18,17 +18,111 @@ version() {
     echo "ponysay v$version"
 }
 
+scrw=`(stty size <&2 || echo 0 0) | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
+listcmd=$(echo $0 | sed -e 's/\/ponysay$/\//g' -e 's/\/ponythink$/\//g')"ponysaylist.pl"
+
 list() {
-    scrw=`(stty size <&2 || echo 0 0) | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
-    
-    listcmd=$(echo $0 | sed -e 's/\/ponysay$/\//g' -e 's/\/ponythink$/\//g')"ponysaylist.pl"
-    
     echo -e "\\e[01mponyfiles located in $SYSTEMPONIES:\\e[21m"
-    perl $listcmd $scrw $(ls --color=no $SYSTEMPONIES | sed "s/.pony//" | sort)
+    perl $listcmd $scrw $(ls --color=no $SYSTEMPONIES | sed -e 's/\.pony$//' | sort)
     
     if [[ -d $HOMEPONIES ]]; then
 	echo -e "\\e[01mponyfiles located in $HOMEPONIES:\\e[21m"
-	perl $listcmd $scrw $(ls --color=no $HOMEPONIES | sed "s/.pony//" | sort)
+	perl $listcmd $scrw $(ls --color=no $HOMEPONIES | sed -e 's/\.pony$//' | sort)
+    fi
+}
+
+_linklist() {
+    echo -e "\\e[01mponyfiles located in $1:\\e[21m"
+    files=$(ls --color=no $1 | sed -e 's/\.pony$//' | sort)
+    
+    args=""
+    
+    for file in $files; do
+	target=$(readlink $1"/"$file".pony")
+	if [[ $target = "" ]]; then
+	    target=$file
+	else
+	    target=$(echo $target | sed -e 's/^\.\///g' -e 's/\.pony$//g')
+	fi
+	args=$(echo $args $file $target)
+    done
+    
+    scrw=`(stty size <&2 || echo 0 0) | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
+    
+    perl '/dev/stdin' $(echo $args) <<EOF | sed -e 's/ /_/g' > /dev/shm/ponysay~
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+#Author: Mattias Andrée (maandree@kth.se)
+
+%hash = ();
+\$argc = @ARGV;
+
+\$i = 0;
+while (\$i < \$argc)
+{
+    \$source = \$ARGV[\$i];
+    \$i += 1;
+    \$target = \$ARGV[\$i];
+    \$i += 1;
+    if (\$source eq \$target)
+    {
+        \$hash{\$source} = [ () ];
+    }
+}
+
+\$i = 0;
+while (\$i < \$argc)
+{
+    \$source = \$ARGV[\$i];
+    \$i += 1;
+    \$target = \$ARGV[\$i];
+    \$i += 1;
+    unless (\$source eq \$target)
+    {
+        push @{ \$hash{\$target} }, \$source;
+    }
+}
+
+\$i = 0;
+while (\$i < \$argc)
+{
+    \$source = \$ARGV[\$i];
+    \$i += 1;
+    \$target = \$ARGV[\$i];
+    \$i += 1;
+    if (\$source eq \$target)
+    {
+        @list = @{ \$hash{\$source} };
+        \$first = 1;
+        print \$source;
+        foreach \$link (@list)
+        {
+            if (\$first eq 1)
+            {
+                print " (".\$link;
+                \$first = 0;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                print " ".\$link;
+            }
+        }
+        if (\$first eq 0)
+        {
+            print ")";
+        }
+        print "\n";
+    }
+}
+EOF
+    
+    perl $listcmd $scrw $(cat /dev/shm/ponysay~) | sed -e 's/_/ /g'
+}
+
+linklist() {
+    _linklist $SYSTEMPONIES
+    if [[ -d $HOMEPONIES ]]; then
+	_linklist $HOMEPONIES
     fi
 }
 
@@ -45,6 +139,7 @@ Options:
   -v          Show version and exit.
   -h          Show this help and exit.
   -l          List pony files.
+  -L          List pony files with synonyms inside brackets.
   -f[name]    Select a pony (either a file name or a pony name.)
   -W[column]  The screen column where the message should be wrapped.
 
@@ -104,13 +199,14 @@ say() {
 
 ponies=()
 
-while getopts f:W:lhv OPT
+while getopts f:W:Llhv OPT
 do
     case ${OPT} in
         v)  version; exit ;;
         h)  usage; exit ;;
         f)  ponies+=( "$OPTARG" ) ;;
 	l)  list; exit ;;
+	L)  linklist; exit ;;
         W)  wrap="$OPTARG" ;;
         \?) usage >&2; exit 1 ;;
     esac