Bill Horne wrote: > Thanks for reading this: I appreciate your time. > > I'm the Moderator of The Telecom Digest, which is the oldest e-zine on the > Internet. > > The readers send in pointers to articles of interest, and each day, other > readers whom subscribe with the "digest" option receive an email with all > the previous day's stories. > > Here's the table-of-contents from a typical day: > > * 1 - [telecom] Can robocalls be tracked? - "bob prohaska" > <[email protected]> > * 2 - Re: [telecom] Can robocalls be tracked? - Bill Horne > <[email protected]> > * 3 - [telecom] Verizon Media debuts ad-targeting solution without > identifiers > - Moderator <[email protected]> > > And here's what I'd like to change it to, using (if possible) sed: > > (tr)(td)Can robocalls be tracked?(/td)(/tr) > (tr)(td)Re: Can robocalls be tracked?(/td)(/tr) > (tr)(td)Verizon Media debuts ad-targeting solution without > identifiers(/td)(/tr) > > ("less-than" and "greater-than" symbols have been changed to > parens here for obvious reasons.) > > Things to note: > > 1. The Subjects lines vary in length, and may contain hyphens. > 2. The name and email of the contributor is also published with the > actual post, further on in each digest, so it doesn't have to appear > in the Table of Contents. > 3. The "m" option of sed, which the manual says will do a multi-line > "s" command, doesn't appear to work on the OS I'm using, which is > Ubuntu 16 LTS. > > Up until now, I've been doing this change every day, with emacs macros and > the rest by-hand. I want to automate a lot more of the daily work, so I'm > hoping that there's a way to get Linux sed to do that. I don't need sed per > se: if awk or some other utility would be a better choice, please tell me > about that possible solution instead.
It might be easier to get your digest software to emit this. What are you using? Also, why single-line tables rather than ul and li ? Then you could just insert (ul) at the beginning, turn the first \* encountered into a (li), and then pop a (/ul) at the end. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
