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

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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