Re: Stripping EOL feeds...
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 01:04, sean finney wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:14PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: I'm trying to format the debian install manual (text version) for printing and I'm trying to save a couple of trees. Is there an easy way to strip the line breaks so the text will come out unformatted? This way I can reduce the font and print whole pages of itty bitty debian install text which, in my own sick way, helps me find info I need quicker... well, what about printing the text two columns to a page? or in landscape mode with three columns per page? otherwise, a quick hack that will do the stripping eol trick is to rename the (pure text) file to .html, and then lynx -dump it, or print it from your favorite web-browser. oh, and i'm pretty sure vim can do stuff with newlines, i'd have to do some grepping through my mbox to find it but i had to sit down and figure that out at some point. regardless, if you want speed i think the previously mentioned hack might do the trick. hth sean There is always the option of piping it through 'fmt' with a suitably long line length and other settings - it will eat the \n unless it sees two consecutive ones, iirc. Check 'man fmt' to see if it can be tweaked to what you want. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Stripping EOL feeds...
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 22:34, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: sorry i am not an expert and myself learning to use vim. however, vim contain search and replace command. so basically we are trying to replace EOL with nothing. how exactly the command will look - i do not know :( Thank you to all who sent options. I tried various commands, including the 'cat' command piped to 'tr'. This gave me what I asked for--though a little sloppy. I wish a word processor would make it easier to find/replace such characters--just like Word Perfect used to (I assume they still do, but I haven't used it since ver. 6)--this made reformatting a breeze and allowed me to be creative with some of my macros. Unfortunately, I do *not* see any of the current WYSIWYG linux offerings doing the same...emacs and vi(m) apparently can get the job done, but they both require more expertise than I was able to learn in the time I had. Again, thanx to all! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stripping EOL feeds...
I'm trying to format the debian install manual (text version) for printing and I'm trying to save a couple of trees. Is there an easy way to strip the line breaks so the text will come out unformatted? This way I can reduce the font and print whole pages of itty bitty debian install text which, in my own sick way, helps me find info I need quicker... Thank you. BTW, I have looked in OO, Abiword, Vim, Emacs, etc. and I can *NOT* find a tool to do this like the old Word Perfect 5.2 could (old sigh here...). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stripping EOL feeds...
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:14PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: I'm trying to format the debian install manual (text version) for printing and I'm trying to save a couple of trees. Is there an easy way to strip the line breaks so the text will come out unformatted? This way I can reduce the font and print whole pages of itty bitty debian install text which, in my own sick way, helps me find info I need quicker... sorry i am not an expert and myself learning to use vim. however, vim contain search and replace command. so basically we are trying to replace EOL with nothing. how exactly the command will look - i do not know :( -- regards, sandip p deshmukh --*** Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. -- Mark Twain msg15073/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Stripping EOL feeds...
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:14PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote:
I'm trying to format the debian install manual (text version) for
printing and I'm trying to save a couple of trees. Is there an easy way
to strip the line breaks so the text will come out unformatted? This
way I can reduce the font and print whole pages of itty bitty debian
install text which, in my own sick way, helps me find info I need
quicker...
there's more than one way--here's one from perl (untested, so
understand everything you execute yourself):
#!/usr/bin/perl
local($/) = ''; # slurp \n\n paragraphs
while(){
s/\n/ /g;# ditch linefeeds
s/\s+/ /g; # squeeze white space down to one space
print $_\n;# print line with (one) end-of-line char
}
then
perl yourScriptName.pl input.text.fyl output.text.fyl
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Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
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:
Wondering if you could change the bindings of CTRL+ALT+DEL, so
that it did a shutdown instead of a reboot? Sure! As root,
edit /etc/inittab. The line to edit looks like this:
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
Just change -r to -h.
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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Re: Stripping EOL feeds...
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:04:48AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:14PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: I'm trying to format the debian install manual (text version) for printing and I'm trying to save a couple of trees. Is there an easy way to strip the line breaks so the text will come out unformatted? This way I can reduce the font and print whole pages of itty bitty debian install text which, in my own sick way, helps me find info I need quicker... sorry i am not an expert and myself learning to use vim. however, vim contain search and replace command. so basically we are trying to replace EOL with nothing. how exactly the command will look - i do not know :( vim is really powerful once you get into the macro language (there's probably a way to program a prime number generator in there somewhere) but for the standard user interaction it's a LINE-ORIENTED beast. you can split a line here to make two lines, you can join two lines together to make one big one -- but for the most part you can't massage text across lines. not without some serious hair on your macros. :%s/pattern/replacement/g finds pattern in all lines and replaces each with replacement. it doesn't span lines, it searches all lines. vim is great, but it has its stumbling blocks... -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 2.2; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown (11 matched vim) DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #47 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Want to LEARN MORE ABOUT VIM? From inside vim (when you're editing some text) try :help :help howto :help options Type ctrl-W ctrl-W to switch 'panes', or ctrl-W q to close one. (Try :help CTRL-W for more details on control-W.) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stripping EOL feeds...
will trillich wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:04:48AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:14PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: I'm trying to format the debian install manual (text version) for printing and I'm trying to save a couple of trees. Is there an easy way to strip the line breaks so the text will come out unformatted? This way I can reduce the font and print whole pages of itty bitty debian install text which, in my own sick way, helps me find info I need quicker... vim is really powerful once you get into the macro language (there's probably a way to program a prime number generator in there somewhere) but for the standard user interaction it's a LINE-ORIENTED beast. you can split a line here to make two lines, you can join two lines together to make one big one -- but for the most part you can't massage text across lines. vim is great, but it has its stumbling blocks... How to do this in vim: G remember what line number is the last line, call it N gg number N J In general, you can put a large number before most commands to do the command that many times...[For this command vim doesn't like it if you try to join more lines than exist] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stripping EOL feeds...
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:14PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: I'm trying to format the debian install manual (text version) for printing and I'm trying to save a couple of trees. Is there an easy way to strip the line breaks so the text will come out unformatted? This way I can reduce the font and print whole pages of itty bitty debian install text which, in my own sick way, helps me find info I need quicker... well, what about printing the text two columns to a page? or in landscape mode with three columns per page? otherwise, a quick hack that will do the stripping eol trick is to rename the (pure text) file to .html, and then lynx -dump it, or print it from your favorite web-browser. oh, and i'm pretty sure vim can do stuff with newlines, i'd have to do some grepping through my mbox to find it but i had to sit down and figure that out at some point. regardless, if you want speed i think the previously mentioned hack might do the trick. hth sean msg15088/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Stripping EOL feeds...
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:14PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: I'm trying to format the debian install manual (text version) for printing and I'm trying to save a couple of trees. Is there an easy way to strip the line breaks so the text will come out unformatted? This way I can reduce the font and print whole pages of itty bitty debian install text which, in my own sick way, helps me find info I need quicker... An alternative approach. Use something like enscript to format it into postscript with two pages per physical page. Then print duplex... -- ...the plural of anecdote is [not?] data. - attrib. to George Stigler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
