Re: I'm an idiot

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:31:20AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Alright, the subject is right!! > > Ron Rademakeker > > On Fri, 19 May 2000, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > Wow you sure are friendly. -- __ _ __ _ Justin Megawarne [ Solitude ]

Re: I'm an idiot

Alright, the subject is right!! Ron Rademakeker On Fri, 19 May 2000, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > A number of you will have received strange messages (purporting to be Usenet > test or cancel messages) from my machine between 1700 and 18

I'm an idiot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, A number of you will have received strange messages (purporting to be Usenet test or cancel messages) from my machine between 1700 and 1830 GMT today. I messsed up my news server configuration which managed to spam several people with these. Sorr

Re: Xlib, or I'm an idiot...again

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Dwarf, Does your .xsession-errors file contain any information, after you try executing these programs from the menu? Regards, Jor-el Human cardiac catheterization was introduced by Werner Forssman in 1929. Ignoring his department chief, and tying his

Re: Xlib, or I'm an idiot...again

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Jor-el wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > [ list changed to debian-user since this definitely belongs there ] > > Dale, > > You need to read the xauth man page. > > You probably tried to start the programs in question after su'ing > to an id which

Re: Xlib, or I'm an idiot...again

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [ list changed to debian-user since this definitely belongs there ] Dale, You need to read the xauth man page. You probably tried to start the programs in question after su'ing to an id which was not the id used to enter your X session. Right?

Solved [I'm an idiot] Re: compiling mod_perl

DOH! I needed to install the libgdbm-dev package. Stupid, stupid, stupid... Christopher Fury wrote: > > I'm trying to compile mod_perl and it doesn't seem to see my gdbm > library > in /usr/libs: [... blah blah ...] -- Christopher Fury Aerosoft, Inc ... a tale told by an idiot, full of sou

Resolved: I'm an idiot

AM Subject: OK, I'm an idiot. ...So I did a chown lp *, but I was in /etc, not in /var/spool/lpd . Oops. Could some forgiving soul mail me an ls -l /etc of a 2.0 system? I think just about all of those files/dirs are owned by root, but I'd like to be sure. -- Unsubscribe? mail

OK, I'm an idiot.

...So I did a chown lp *, but I was in /etc, not in /var/spool/lpd . Oops. Could some forgiving soul mail me an ls -l /etc of a 2.0 system? I think just about all of those files/dirs are owned by root, but I'd like to be sure.

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

Hi, Perl is your friend (tested solution). % perl -pli~ -e 's/\t/ /og' Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

Dale wrote, >It seems that none of the solutions presented allowed sed to find and >replace the - character pair. Now that it's phrased that way, a memory arises. I was trying to make filters to make articles posted to a mailing list readable a while back (my ISN hardware would freeze on a ^S

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : You are absolutely correct, and as a developer I should probably know : better. My only excuse is that I spend a lot of time on this list, and : consider the folks here my friends. This leaves little time to go : exploring other venues, and besides, I'd ra

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > Before people start flooding this thread with nifty perl one-liners, I > would really like to see how this is done with sed. oops. too late. no script-language-religious-war intended, though. i use perl and sed and think they're both great. i'd also like

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

Well, it's time to sum up the efforts of all you good folks out there who tried to relieve my ignorance. I want to thank you all for the information (even Aaron was helpful) you imparted and the spirit of helpfulness for what was clearly an off topic post. First is a very nice new trick to know a

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > And this may allow me to deal with the hyphons at the end of the lines. I > can do one pass through sed replacing new lines with \n, and then make > another pass editing out all the '-\n'. I am still left with the problem > of converting all the other '\n

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

Stephen Zander wrote: > Aaron Denney wrote: > > This isn't quite the appropriate venue for such questions, as it is > > a general unix/sed question and not very specific to Debian. In the > > future try the newsgroup comp.unix.programmer or comp.unix.questions. > > Lignten up :) Dale provides imm

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I've been trying to use sed to do some editing of simple characters from a > large block of ascii text. The text has tabs that I wish to replace with > spaces, and hyphonated words wrapped across linefeeds that I also wish to > remove. > > For the tabs,

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

Dale Scheetz wrote: > The ctrl-v works fine for a tab, but I have no newline key on my keyboard, > only an enter (which produces ^M when pressed after ctrl-v and the search > fails). Is there a way to enter a character by giving its ascii value (in > dos the alt key lets you enter the decimal value

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

Thank you all for the many kind replies. Many of you pointed out my mistake as did Oliver, which stems from a poor reading of the sed man page. I blindly looked for tab and found a table of backslashed characters and their equivalents. On second reading I discover that these are the output characte

on/off topic(was Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...)

Dale Scheetz writes: > >On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' outfile >> > >> > and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out just >> > what had been removed) none of the hyphonated text is corrected. >> >> This

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

Aaron Denney wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For the tabs, I try the following: > > > > sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g' outfile > > > > Which very cleanly places every t in the document with a space!?? > > > > For the hyphonation I try: > > > > sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' outfile > > > > and althoug

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

Dale Scheetz wrote: >On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote: >> Your problem is that the inner quotes don't add another level quoting, but >> take away another level of quoting. To be a little clearer: >> >> > sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g' outfile >> ^^ are the quoted

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

Nathan E Norman writes: > >On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > >: On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote: >: >: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >: > > sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' outfile >: > > >: > > and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out >just >: > > what had been re

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: : On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote: : : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : > > sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' outfile : > > : > > and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out just : > > what had been removed) none of the hyphonated text i

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've been trying to use sed to do some editing of simple characters from a >large block of ascii text. The text has tabs that I wish to replace with >spaces, and hyphonated words wrapped across linefeeds that I also wish to >r

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Personally, I find the "off topic" threads on this list are often very > interesting. I almost always learn some new twist or trick that I had not > seen before, so it is my hope that, when I have problems, the solution may > be valuable to others as well

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I've been trying to use sed to do some editing of simple characters from a > large block of ascii text. The text has tabs that I wish to replace with > spaces, and hyphonated words wrapped across linefeeds that I also wish to > remove. > > For the tabs, I

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

> Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; > X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 12:02:04 -0500 (EST) > From: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/19637

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' outfile > > > > and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out just > > what had been removed) none of the hyphonated text is corrected. > > This isn't quite the appropriate ven

I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For the tabs, I try the following: > > sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g' outfile > > Which very cleanly places every t in the document with a space!?? > > For the hyphonation I try: > > sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' outfile > > and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn

I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

I've been trying to use sed to do some editing of simple characters from a large block of ascii text. The text has tabs that I wish to replace with spaces, and hyphonated words wrapped across linefeeds that I also wish to remove. For the tabs, I try the following: sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g' outf