Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

Topics: Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

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  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
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        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
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      sleep 0.34
    done

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