Ok, I'm a moron for not reading the original post before answering. Never mind.
uriel
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Uriel <urie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> awk '{n=n+NF} n>1000 {print ":"NR; exit}'
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> That will print something you can plumb and go to the line you want.
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> Should be obvious enough how to generalize into a reusable script.
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> (Typed from memory and not tested.)
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> uriel
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> 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.
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>>> Say I really want to get there, so that I can manually edit the place.
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>> if i really had to do this (as a one-off), i'd probably do it in a
>> few stages:
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>> copy & paste the line to a New blank window.
>> in the new window:
>> Edit ,x/[ ]+/a/\n/
>> :1000
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>> edit as desired
>> Edit ,x/\n/d
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>> copy and paste back to the original window.
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>> 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.
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>> e.g.
>> sed 's/[ \t]+/&\n/' | sed 1000q | tr -d '\012' | wc -c
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>> 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
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>> it'd only be a few minutes to write.
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>> another option would be to write a little script that used the
>> addr file repeatedly to find the nth match of a regexp.
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>>
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