Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jul 3, 2022, at 3:17 PM, Rod Buchanan  wrote:
> 
> Don't enter the '$'.  I was showing the shell prompt (in my case, the bash 
> shell).  I probably should've left that out.

No problem of course -- now it works great. (In case it matters, I am using 
Monterey, so the default is zsh.)

Thank you very much -- again I have learned a lot.

David

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jul 3, 2022, at 1:26 PM, David Kelly  wrote:
> 
> As I originally stated, you now invoke the script file with 
> "awk -f script.awk " with a trailing space then drag your input file to the 
> command line to finish.
> 
> -f tells awk to get its commands from the specified file rather than the 
> command line.

Thanks for the detailed explanation and your patience --  this worked great and 
I really learned a lot.

This is the most helpful email list I have ever been on.

David

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jul 3, 2022, at 12:54 PM, Christopher Waterman  wrote:
> 
> It seems like you are missing some fundamentals when dealing with the command 
> line and paths and such.

Yes, missing almost all the fundamentals (except for knowing how to create a 
POSIX style path), so thank you for the very clear explanation, which worked 
great.

By the way, these days I don't have use for this kind of thing very often -- or 
else I would take the time to learn it from scratch instead of filling in 
someone else's generously provided template -- but it's extremely interesting 
to see its potential.

David


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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jul 3, 2022, at 10:07 AM, Rod Buchanan  wrote:
> 
> Another command-line option would be to use cut.  Assuming the fields are 
> separated by a space:
> 
>   $ cut -d ' ' -f1 source_file.txt > output_file_1.txt
>   $ cut -d ' ' -f2 source_file.txt > output_file_1.txt
> 
> Where:
> 
>   -d ‘ ‘  Tells cut the fields are separated by a space
>   -f 1Specifieds the field, in this case 
> field 1
>   source_file.txt the name of the file containing the data
>   output_file_1.txt   the name of the file you want the output placed 
> in

Thank you for this interesting tip.

I now know how to specify the output path by dragging the output file to the 
command line when the item it is replacing is the last one in the command, but 
how do I do it for an item in the middle of the command?

Also, when I entered the above text in Terminal to try it out, I got the error 
message "zsh: command not found: $". 

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jul 3, 2022, at 7:26 AM, David Kelly  wrote:
> 
> Create an awk script file. Lets call it "script.awk" that looks like this:
> 
>   {
>   print $1 >> "col-1.txt"
>   print $2 >> "col-2.txt"
>   }

Is creating an awk script file different from entering the above script in 
Terminal?

If not, do I add "awk" before the leading curly bracket?

Thank you,

David

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jul 3, 2022, at 12:07 AM, Chris  wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 2, 2022, at 10:55 PM, David Brostoff  wrote:
>> 
>> }’ input.txt/Users/davidbrostoff/Desktop/Sample2010-2011.txt
> 
> You need to replace ‘input.txt’ with the file you are dragging in 
> ‘/Users/davidbrostoff/Desktop/Sample2010-2011.txt’, as ‘input.txt‘was just a 
> stand in for the file you’re working with. 

I had tried that but it still didn't work -- thanks anyway.

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jul 2, 2022, at 9:29 PM, David Kelly  wrote:
> 
> Type the command line and rather than type the input file name just drag the 
> file to the command line. Finder/Terminal will write the file's full path on 
> the command line.

P.S. When I said the following line is repeated three times, I now realize 
that's only because I made three attempts:

}’ input.txt/Users/davidbrostoff/Desktop/Sample2010-2011.txt

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jul 2, 2022, at 9:29 PM, David Kelly  wrote:
> 
> Type the command line and rather than type the input file name just drag the 
> file to the command line. Finder/Terminal will write the file's full path on 
> the command line.

Thanks for the tip, but I must be doing something wrong. 

First I copy and paste this command:

awk ‘{ print $1 >> “col-1.txt”
print $2 >> “col-2.txt” }’ input.txt

Then I drag the source file to the command line and press Enter, which produces 
this error message:

awk: syntax error at source line 1   
 context is
 >>> ? <<< 
missing }
awk: bailing out at source line 1

Two text files are produced, but the one named "col-1.txt" is blank and the 
"col-2.txt" has this line, repeated three times: 

}’ input.txt/Users/davidbrostoff/Desktop/Sample2010-2011.txt

David 


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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jun 29, 2022, at 8:49 PM, Christopher Waterman  wrote:
> 
> It breaks down like this:
> 
> awk = The command; it takes two parameters. Param 1: The script. Param 2: A 
> Path to the source file.

Again sorry for the beginner question, but what format should I use for the 
path if, for example, the file is on my Desktop?

David

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jun 30, 2022, at 5:47 AM, John E. Connerat  wrote:
> 
> Although this has been solved in numerous ways, there is one more solution 
> that might work if all the data are formatted with exactly three digits 
> followed by a space and two digits. It's something I use all the time with 
> fixed-width column data, and it's particularly quick, especially if you are 
> dealing with a column in the middle of many columns.

Thanks for the tip -- I have done this occasionally in the past and had briefly 
thought about it for this but somehow didn't even try it. 

David

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jun 30, 2022, at 2:05 AM, Kaveh  wrote:
> 
> David, Extract is a great feature. Simple but clever. I use it all the time 
> for quickly analysing text I have scraped for example...

Yes -- for the past couple of years I have only been using BBEdit in a very 
limited way and this was the first time I used Extract, but I can see its 
potential.

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jun 29, 2022, at 8:52 PM, Christopher Waterman  wrote:
> 
> Well… No, no more steps.

Mystery solved:

I somehow had the Regex command highlighted in the Find box. As soon as I 
clicked elsewhere to dismiss the highlighting, the extracted text appeared in 
the new document.

Thanks again -- I really appreciate your help.

David

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jun 29, 2022, at 8:52 PM, Christopher Waterman  wrote:
> 
> Well… No, no more steps.

Is it because I am using BBEdit in free mode?

David

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jun 29, 2022, at 8:49 PM, Christopher Waterman  wrote:
> 
> Does that help?

Yes, now I get it -- thank you.

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jun 29, 2022, at 7:43 PM, David Kelly  wrote:
> 
> In terminal.app it would be something like this:
> 
> awk ‘{ print $1 >> “col-1.txt”
>  print $2 >> “col-2.txt” }’ input.txt

As I mentioned, I am completely ignorant of awk, so sorry for the basic 
question, but how do I get Terminal to point to the source document?

David

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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jun 29, 2022, at 7:58 PM, Christopher Waterman  wrote:
> 
> It is pretty easy to do this with two finds with extract.
> Extract opens the matches in a new document.
> 
> Find: ^\d{3}
> Then hit extract
> 
> Find: \b\d{2}\b
> Then hit extract again

Thank you for the easy-to-follow instructions.

When I click extract, it highlights the matches and opens a new document but 
it's blank?

Is there another step?

David


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Re: Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

On Jun 29, 2022, at 7:43 PM, David Kelly  wrote:
> 
> In terminal.app it would be something like this:
> 
> awk ‘{ print $1 >> “col-1.txt”
>   print $2 >> “col-2.txt” }’ input.txt

Thank you -- I haven't used awk before though so I will have to get up to 
speed. (I asked about GREP only because I have used it a little in the past.)

David

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Help with a GREP task

[David Brostoff]

I have a list of numbers in this format:

123 56
789 01

How can I create two separate documents with 123 and 789 in one and 56 and 01 
in the other?

David

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Re: Easy way to open .html files in BBEdit vs. browser?

[David Brostoff]

On Oct 23, 2018, at 3:39 PM, David Brostoff  wrote:
> 
> I am very satisfied with the other solution you provided but I also have 
> LaunchBar and would like to understand how to use it for this.
> 
> Could you explain a little more?

Please ignore my question -- I now see how to use LaunchBar to do this.

David

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Re: Easy way to open .html files in BBEdit vs. browser?

[David Brostoff]

On Oct 23, 2018, at 5:16 AM, Roland Küffner  wrote:
> 
> If you find yourself throwing around files between different applications 
> very often, I'd highly recommend LaunchBar 
> (https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index-de.html). It provides 
> something like piping in the terminal, only for the whole OS. It works like a 
> charm with BBEdit. No matter if file, folder, a clipboard entry or a text 
> selection - BBEdit is always only a  and a  away.

I am very satisfied with the other solution you provided but I also have 
LaunchBar and would like to understand how to use it for this.

Could you explain a little more?

Thank you,

Davi

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Re: Easy way to open .html files in BBEdit vs. browser?

[David Brostoff]

On Oct 22, 2018, at 5:34 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary  
wrote:
> 
> I have the same issue that I solved with a trivial bit of AppleScript

Thank you for this suggestion and for the detailed instructions.

I already solved this by using a keyboard shortcut with the "Open File in 
BBEdit" service, as Roland Küffner suggested, but I may use your solution for a 
similar problem I have with a different application (opening some PDFs in 
Preview instead of Acrobat).

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Re: Easy way to open .html files in BBEdit vs. browser?

[David Brostoff]

On Oct 22, 2018, at 2:33 PM, Roland Küffner  wrote:
> 
> if I’am not mistaken, BBEdit comes with a system wide Service called „Open 
> File in BBEdit“ (at least, I have it in my service collection).
> 
> So, open macOS’ system preferences, goto Keyboard > Shortcuts. Find it in the 
> list and give it a shortcut to your liking.

Thank you for the tip -- I appreciate your help.

In Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > Open File in BBEdit (macOS 10.13.6), the 
box for that item was already checked and I created the shortcut 
Command-Option-O.

When I highlight an .htm file and use the shortcut, though, the Finder window 
where the file is located closes and the file opens in Safari, not BBEdit.

Maybe I am doing something wrong?

David

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Easy way to open .html files in BBEdit vs. browser?

[David Brostoff]

Usually I want .html files to open in a web browser, but often I want them to 
open in BBEdit. 

Dragging files to the BBEdit icon in the Dock or using File > Open can get 
tedious though.

Is there a way to make this easier, preferably via a keyboard shortcut?

Thank you,

David

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Re: Duplicate quotation marks

[David Brostoff]

On Feb 3, 2018, at 1:24 PM, Bucky Junior  wrote:
> 
> Look in Preferences —>Completion —>Insert matching delimiters while typing.
> 
> Selected, it will double the double quotes, single quotes, parentheses, 
> square brackets, curly brackets, and who knows what else. Oh, Barebones knows.
> 
> My preference is to have that off. I guess that’s why it is in the 
> Preferences.

Thank you -- that did it.

I had looked in Preferences > Editing but not in Completion, and even if I did, 
I wouldn't have known what a delimiter was. (I do now.)

I guess that's the inevitable consequence of an unsophisticated user using such 
a sophisticated tool. I appreciate BBedit's many features but use only a small 
fraction of them.

David

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Duplicate quotation marks

[David Brostoff]

With BBEdit 12.0.2 (MacBook Pro 2017 15-inch, macOS 10.13.2, ABC - Extended 
keyboard in System Preferences), whenever I type a double quotation mark, two 
sets of double quotation marks are displayed.

In other words, when I type ", the result is "", with the cursor placed between 
the two quotation marks.

I think this started with 10.13.

Maybe a preference needs to be changed?

Thank you,

David

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Re: Swap compare panels?

[David Brostoff]

On Aug 19, 2017, at 1:38 PM, F. Alfredo Rego  wrote:
> 
> Perhaps Patrick and Rich might be inclined to consider placing 
> a “swap panes” button somewhere in the differences window itself 
> (if this is even feasible, and if this won’t break anything).

I second the motion -- I have been wanting that for a long time.

David

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Re: compare docx files?

[David Brostoff]

> On Jul 26, 2017, at 4:12 PM, Fletcher Sandbeck  wrote:
> 
> If you open the Find Differences window you can drag two documents from the 
> Finder into the rounded rectangle targets on the right.

When I try that the .docx files are displayed as gibberish. (Maybe they have to 
be in .txt or .rtf format?)

Thank you, 

David

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Preview advantages

[David Brostoff]

I have been happily using TextWrangler for a few years now. Most of
what I do is fairly low-level work on HTML files that someone else has
created.

I recently tried the BBEdit free trial but didn't really see anything
that I needed. Today, though, someone mentioned the preview feature,
which might be helpful. With TextWrangler, I open the file in a
browser and put it alongside the text file. When I want to see saved
changes, I just refresh the browser.

Would the BBEdit preview function be an improvement? (I couldn't find
any screen shots on the Bare Bones webdsite and my BBEdit free trial
has expired so I can't try it.)

Thank you,

David

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Re: Preview advantages

[David Brostoff]

At 1:23 PM -0700 5/3/11, Steve Piercy wrote:

What is low-level?
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Preview may or may not be helpful in this situation. If you work in a
web framework or use virtual URLs or edit an included file, then
Preview does not help much. But if you edit a single HTML file and
Preview it, Preview will update its display of the file as you edit
it. No need to switch to a web browser and refresh.


By low-level, I mean that I am only editing e-mail templates 
(replacing text and photos, inserting links, etc.). I am not skilled 
enough to create a page from scratch myself.


These are single HTML files, so it sounds as if Preview would work 
for me. Otherwise I am constantly having to click on the browser 
window and refresh the browser.


David

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Re: Preview advantages

[David Brostoff]

At 3:09 PM -0700 5/3/11, Steve Piercy wrote:


Also BBEdit is not a WYSIWYG editor, like Adobe Dreamweaver or the
open source editors KompoZer or SeaMonkey. A WYSIWYG editor simulates
what the web browser displays to a fair degree, although not exactly.
Any of these may be more suitable to your usage.
http://kompozer.net/
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/


When you say that BBEdit is not WYSIWYG, do you mean the browser is 
more accurate? Otherwise, what does the BBEdit Preview look like?


David

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