Re: [CentOS] another sed question...
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> where I'm taking the 'id:' field from each record and inserting an
> underscore and the id into the 'attributes' label directly above.
Just for fun, this is a one-line sed script that would change that file:
sed -n -e '/^attributes:$/{' -e 'n' -e 'h' -e 's/^ id:
"\(.*\)"$/attributes_\1:/' -e 'Ta' -e 'G' -e 'p' -e 'b' -e ':a' -e 'n'
-e 'H' -e 's/^ id: "\(.*\)"$/attributes_\1:/' -e 'Ta' -e 'G' -e '}' -e
'p'
It could probably be done better than that.
"sed" can do anything (there is an example that implements the "bc"
calculator in "sed"), but it's certainly not the best tool for
anything. These days, I would say that foranything that involves
correlating lines (actually, anything that involves more than
substitutions and deletion of lines -- s/// and //d) you would be
better off with perl or python.
I wouldn't bother learning awk, if you want to spend your time
learning something, go directly to perl or python. awk tends to get
very ugly when your script grows, and it does many things in an
AWKward way.
For text processing, Perl is still king. Python can certainly be used
for that, but even though I know Python well, for tasks such as the
one above I would choose Perl. The way regular expressions are
embedded in the language makes it very productive to work with these
problems.
HTH!
Filipe
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Re: [CentOS] another sed question...
Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 20:26 +0200, Thomas Johansson wrote:
Craig White wrote:
Looking to change a yml file (yaml is a database type file)
*** from
--- !ruby/object:Right
attributes:
name: Personnel Admin
action: index
id: "1"
controller: assessments
--- !ruby/object:Right
attributes:
name: Personnel Admin
action: find
id: "2"
controller: assessments
*** to
--- !ruby/object:Right
attributes_1:
name: Personnel Admin
action: index
id: "1"
controller: assessments
--- !ruby/object:Right
attributes_2:
name: Personnel Admin
action: find
id: "2"
controller: assessments
where I'm taking the 'id:' field from each record and inserting an
underscore and the id into the 'attributes' label directly above.
Any takers?
Thanks
Craig
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I use awk instead of sed...
Reverse file order, perform changes using awk and reverse again
tac test.yml | awk '{if ($1=="id:"){idtag=substr($2,2,1)}; \
if ($1=="attributes:") {print "attributes_"idtag":"} \
else {print $0}}' | tac -
That was awesome...thanks...I learned a lot there.
I had to adjust the length of the substr function to get what I needed.
Thanks
Craig
I didn't think of numbers larger than 9 :-/ Here is an upgraded version
of my script.. modify the substr command slightly.. That will enable
numbers up to 10 chars long.
idtag=strtonum(substr($2,2,10))
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Re: [CentOS] another sed question...
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 20:26 +0200, Thomas Johansson wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > Looking to change a yml file (yaml is a database type file)
> >
> > *** from
> > --- !ruby/object:Right
> > attributes:
> > name: Personnel Admin
> > action: index
> > id: "1"
> > controller: assessments
> > --- !ruby/object:Right
> > attributes:
> > name: Personnel Admin
> > action: find
> > id: "2"
> > controller: assessments
> >
> > *** to
> > --- !ruby/object:Right
> > attributes_1:
> > name: Personnel Admin
> > action: index
> > id: "1"
> > controller: assessments
> > --- !ruby/object:Right
> > attributes_2:
> > name: Personnel Admin
> > action: find
> > id: "2"
> > controller: assessments
> >
> > where I'm taking the 'id:' field from each record and inserting an
> > underscore and the id into the 'attributes' label directly above.
> >
> > Any takers?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Craig
> >
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> I use awk instead of sed...
>
> Reverse file order, perform changes using awk and reverse again
>
> tac test.yml | awk '{if ($1=="id:"){idtag=substr($2,2,1)}; \
>if ($1=="attributes:") {print "attributes_"idtag":"} \
>else {print $0}}' | tac -
That was awesome...thanks...I learned a lot there.
I had to adjust the length of the substr function to get what I needed.
Thanks
Craig
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Re: [CentOS] another sed question...
Craig White wrote:
Looking to change a yml file (yaml is a database type file)
*** from
--- !ruby/object:Right
attributes:
name: Personnel Admin
action: index
id: "1"
controller: assessments
--- !ruby/object:Right
attributes:
name: Personnel Admin
action: find
id: "2"
controller: assessments
*** to
--- !ruby/object:Right
attributes_1:
name: Personnel Admin
action: index
id: "1"
controller: assessments
--- !ruby/object:Right
attributes_2:
name: Personnel Admin
action: find
id: "2"
controller: assessments
where I'm taking the 'id:' field from each record and inserting an
underscore and the id into the 'attributes' label directly above.
Any takers?
Thanks
Craig
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I use awk instead of sed...
Reverse file order, perform changes using awk and reverse again
tac test.yml | awk '{if ($1=="id:"){idtag=substr($2,2,1)}; \
if ($1=="attributes:") {print "attributes_"idtag":"} \
else {print $0}}' | tac -
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Re: [CentOS] another sed question...
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking to change a yml file (yaml is a database type file) > > *** from > --- !ruby/object:Right > attributes: > name: Personnel Admin > action: index > id: "1" > controller: assessments > --- !ruby/object:Right > attributes: > name: Personnel Admin > action: find > id: "2" > controller: assessments > > *** to > --- !ruby/object:Right > attributes_1: > name: Personnel Admin > action: index > id: "1" > controller: assessments > --- !ruby/object:Right > attributes_2: > name: Personnel Admin > action: find > id: "2" > controller: assessments > > where I'm taking the 'id:' field from each record and inserting an > underscore and the id into the 'attributes' label directly above. > > Any takers? > Sed is not a good candidate for this, although you might be able to do it with some seriously twisted script. Sed is a stream editor - its commands are applied to every line it sees. Awk is a much better candidate for this - you could write a not terribly difficult script to cache the lines up to the id, modify the attributes line and spit out the whole batch. As for writing it for you, I strongly urge you to read the man page and see if you can't do one yourself. It will be worth the effort in future endeavors. Once I taught myself how to write in awk, I found 1) reading it in other people's scripts was a WHALE of a lot easier and 2) it wasn't that hard to write anything from simple ones to really complicated ones. However, really complicated awk scripts are of limited use IMNSHO because a really complicated pattern transformation that needs to be executed a lot is better implemented in a program (i.e., C, C++ or whatever) or a more advanced scripting language like Perl (or Python, which I've yet to use). You could even do this in a shell script mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] another sed question...
Looking to change a yml file (yaml is a database type file) *** from --- !ruby/object:Right attributes: name: Personnel Admin action: index id: "1" controller: assessments --- !ruby/object:Right attributes: name: Personnel Admin action: find id: "2" controller: assessments *** to --- !ruby/object:Right attributes_1: name: Personnel Admin action: index id: "1" controller: assessments --- !ruby/object:Right attributes_2: name: Personnel Admin action: find id: "2" controller: assessments where I'm taking the 'id:' field from each record and inserting an underscore and the id into the 'attributes' label directly above. Any takers? Thanks Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
