awk '{n=n+NF} n>1000 {print ":"NR; exit}'
That will print something you can plumb and go to the line you want.
Should be obvious enough how to generalize into a reusable script.
(Typed from memory and not tested.)
uriel
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:40 PM, roger peppe <rogpe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/3 Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.syk...@gmail.com>:
>>> I would do it with awk myself, Much depends on what you want to
>>> do to the 1000'th word on the line.
>>
>> Say I really want to get there, so that I can manually edit the place.
>
> if i really had to do this (as a one-off), i'd probably do it in a
> few stages:
>
> copy & paste the line to a New blank window.
> in the new window:
> Edit ,x/[ ]+/a/\n/
> :1000
>
> edit as desired
> Edit ,x/\n/d
>
> copy and paste back to the original window.
>
> if you were going to do this a lot, you could easily make a little
> script to tell you the offset of the 1000th word.
>
> e.g.
> sed 's/[ \t]+/&\n/' | sed 1000q | tr -d '\012' | wc -c
>
> actually that doesn't work 'cos sed has line length issues.
> so i'd probably do it in C - the program would take the line
> as stdin and could print out address
> of the word in acme-friendly notation, e.g. :-++#8499;+#6
>
> it'd only be a few minutes to write.
>
> another option would be to write a little script that used the
> addr file repeatedly to find the nth match of a regexp.
>
>
