On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, John Marr wrote about, scripting question: Just curious:
> I am under a deadline to edit an index for a book. As of right now I am
> editing the index by hand, then going into ms-word and making all of the
> corrections. an example of the index would be:
>
> Abarca Puma, Nicanor, 473
> Academica Nacional del Tango. 264-65
> Flutes, Bone, 120
> Bolivia, 12, 139-40
>
>
> Now, I have a list of pages that have been deleted for the book, i.e.
> 92-117, 245, 350-475 . . .
>
> Would it be possible to create some sort of bash program that would find
> each number and compare them to the list? If the number matches a number on
> the delted page list, then the script would delete it. I guess this would
> be possible, but then the only problem would be those pages that are
> continuous ie.264-65. Somehow, the program would have to identify it as
> 264,265.
I see no problem in creating a script to do that.
> Would anyone know how I could go about creating a shell script that could do
> all of this. I really an just beginning to use linux and program, so i
> don't know that much, and this deadline is fast approaching..
Yes i could help, i expect others will offer as well.
A small script using sed and/or grep would do the trick.
>
> any response would be helpful
>
> thanks, John
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