On Thu, February 21, 2008 4:14 pm, SJS wrote: > begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:42:05PM -0800: >> My sig file grows larger. And every once in a while, I want to be >> selective about which sigs are selected by my random sig selector (a >> plugin for thunderbird). >> >> I thought about making a script that moves the sig file out of the way, >> and greps certain lines from the main sig file (now a different name), >> and dumps them into a sig file of the original name. But my problem is >> that I need grep to cough up everything between the two "%" delimiters, >> not just the matching line. And further, if more than one sig matches, >> I don't want two successive delimiter lines. And finally, I don't want >> a delimiter line at the beginning or end of the resulting file. >> >> I don't have much experience with such things outside of DOS batch >> files, and even that was long ago. But I'm thinking I may need to use >> grep -n STRING to identify the line numbers of the matches, and grep -n >> ^%$ to identify the delimiter lines. But then it would be a matter of >> telling sed to grab the appropriate line numbers. But how do I get the >> script to calculate which line numbers? > > Do you run your sigs thru strfile first? > > Hm... I can't find the randstr example on my system, despite the > manpages claiming that it's part of this distribution. Nor do I have > the strfile.h header, contrary to what I would expect. > > [snip] > > For this sort of text processing, I'd probably reach for perl before > trying to build something out of grep. >
I've done perl. Tcl was better. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
