On 13/01/2014 6:58 PM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> Ah, that is much easier to read. Just one annoying suggestion from a
> backseat driver; The following are equivalent:
>
> grep '^foo' | \
> awk '{print "wget -c bar "}'
>
> and
>
> awk '/^foo/ {print "wget -c bar "}'
>
> I.e. The core of awk is that it is a line processor which runs blocks of
> C-like text processing code against those input lines which match a set
> of regex or literal text triggers.
>
> Also, to simplify quoting, inclusion of shell variables can be done
> with:
>
> awk -F '/^foo/ {print "wget -c bar '$2' "}'
Yes, I did that too, but didn't re-post again.
> IIUC, the sed line is just adding line breaks at href tags. Setting RS
> to a regex (in awk) would allow awk to see the input as lines broken
> only at those tags, obviating the need for sed as well.
A bit of playing with RS didn't bear fruit, but then I found the page
has completely changed -- so that's probably why.
> Hopefully that's interesting and/or useful.
Yes, useful, but as the entire page has changed now -- much different to
what it was -- so everything broke.
Cheers
A.
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