Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?
Gary Kline wrote:
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:06:51AM +0100, Mark Willson wrote:
The following version should do what you want:
BEGIN {
ncnt = 0
prev = BOF
}
/^ *$/ {
ncnt++;
if (ncnt 3) {
print Emphasis at NR : prev;
prev = -multiple-
ncnt = 0;
}
next;
}
{ncnt = 0; prev = $0}
-mark
It does! outstanding
thanks again,
gary
Gary,
No problem. Glad I could help.
-mark
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Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?
I know its not in commandline, but in vim (maybe even vi) you could just /\n\n\n This would find new lines... And you could jump between them with n.. and :set ruler so you can find linenumber On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several newlines to indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or whatever. i have lost these vertical spacing in all but my original draft. can i use grep somehow to find these extra newlines? if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?! tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Med Venlig Hilsen Kalle R. Møller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?
Gary Kline wrote:
Yes, this works just fine. I findthat there are about 130 places that
I need to
track... --yeah, i did over-do it in the time-breaks in my story.
Is there a way of printing the string/line in the `manuscript' file
along with the line
number? I'm well into a copyedit of the manuscript and would rather
not start over!
thanks for this.
:wq
Sorry:: sounds a bit moronic:: not print the blank line/newline! but
print the
NR-1-th line.
Gary,
The following version should do what you want:
BEGIN {
ncnt = 0
prev = BOF
}
/^ *$/ {
ncnt++;
if (ncnt 3) {
print Emphasis at NR : prev;
prev = -multiple-
ncnt = 0;
}
next;
}
{ncnt = 0; prev = $0}
-mark
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Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:06:51AM +0100, Mark Willson wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
Yes, this works just fine. I findthat there are about 130 places
that I need to
track... --yeah, i did over-do it in the time-breaks in my story.
Is there a way of printing the string/line in the `manuscript' file
along with the line
number? I'm well into a copyedit of the manuscript and would rather
not start over!
thanks for this.
:wq
Sorry:: sounds a bit moronic:: not print the blank line/newline!
but print the
NR-1-th line.
Gary,
The following version should do what you want:
BEGIN {
ncnt = 0
prev = BOF
}
/^ *$/ {
ncnt++;
if (ncnt 3) {
print Emphasis at NR : prev;
prev = -multiple-
ncnt = 0;
}
next;
}
{ncnt = 0; prev = $0}
-mark
It does! outstanding
thanks again,
gary
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Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:55:44AM +0200, Kalle M?ller wrote: I know its not in commandline, but in vim (maybe even vi) you could just /\n\n\n This would find new lines... And you could jump between them with n.. and :set ruler so you can find linenumber DIdn't think of this, but it doesn't seem to work in vi or vim. i think i've got vim set to vi-mode. anyway, the awk script that mark willson posted works. next time i'll put in something like XBREAKX for my v-breaks. gary On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several newlines to indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or whatever. i have lost these vertical spacing in all but my original draft. can i use grep somehow to find these extra newlines? if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?! tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Med Venlig Hilsen Kalle R. Møller -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?
On 2009-09-05 17:36, Gary Kline wrote:
in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several newlines to
indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or whatever. i have lost these
vertical spacing in all but my original draft. can i use grep somehow to find
these extra newlines?
if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?!
Sed has the ability to pull into the current line the next line, appended and
separated by a \n character. It's hard to use correctly, I've found, and my
simple demo:
sed -e '/^$/{N;N;N; s/^\n\n\n$/===4 blank lines==/; }'
Does not quite work as I'd hoped. But hopefully it's enough to get you started.
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Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?
Gary Kline wrote:
in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several
newlines to indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or
whatever. i have lost these vertical spacing in all but my
original draft. can i use grep somehow to find these extra newlines?
if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?!
tia,
gary
Gary,
If I understand your question correctly (by no means certain), the
following may help. This is an awk script, which will print out the
lines in the source file at which it finds more than three consecutive
empty lines.
BEGIN {
ncnt = 0
}
/^ *$/ {
ncnt++;
if (ncnt 3)
{print Emphasis at: NR;
ncnt = 0;}
next;
}
{ncnt = 0;}
You can invoke this (assuming the awk source in is a file called
em.awk and your original manuscript is in a file called manuscript) by:
$ awk -f em.awk manuscript
-mark
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Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 08:11:48PM +0100, Mark Willson wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several
newlines to indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or
whatever. i have lost these vertical spacing in all but my
original draft. can i use grep somehow to find these extra newlines?
if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?!
tia,
gary
Gary,
If I understand your question correctly (by no means certain), the
following may help. This is an awk script, which will print out the
lines in the source file at which it finds more than three consecutive
empty lines.
BEGIN {
ncnt = 0
}
/^ *$/ {
ncnt++;
if (ncnt 3)
{print Emphasis at: NR;
ncnt = 0;}
next;
}
{ncnt = 0;}
You can invoke this (assuming the awk source in is a file called
em.awk and your original manuscript is in a file called manuscript) by:
$ awk -f em.awk manuscript
-mark
Yes, this works just fine. I findthat there are about 130 places that
I need to
track... --yeah, i did over-do it in the time-breaks in my story.
Is there a way of printing the string/line in the `manuscript' file
along with the line
number? I'm well into a copyedit of the manuscript and would rather
not start over!
thanks for this.
gary
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Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:44:13PM -0500, Mak Kolybabi wrote:
On 2009-09-05 17:36, Gary Kline wrote:
in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several newlines to
indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or whatever. i have lost
these
vertical spacing in all but my original draft. can i use grep somehow to
find
these extra newlines?
if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?!
Sed has the ability to pull into the current line the next line, appended and
separated by a \n character. It's hard to use correctly, I've found, and my
simple demo:
sed -e '/^$/{N;N;N; s/^\n\n\n$/===4 blank lines==/; }'
Does not quite work as I'd hoped. But hopefully it's enough to get you
started.
Thanks, Mak. iT really *is* more difficult that grep can handle. I
could catch the
three newlines in C, but the string/line above the break would be
painful unless i
kept a linked list of linenumbers. too much like work:-)
gary
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Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 04:23:01PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 08:11:48PM +0100, Mark Willson wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several
newlines to indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or
whatever. i have lost these vertical spacing in all but my
original draft. can i use grep somehow to find these extra newlines?
if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?!
tia,
gary
Gary,
If I understand your question correctly (by no means certain), the
following may help. This is an awk script, which will print out the
lines in the source file at which it finds more than three consecutive
empty lines.
BEGIN {
ncnt = 0
}
/^ *$/ {
ncnt++;
if (ncnt 3)
{print Emphasis at: NR;
ncnt = 0;}
next;
}
{ncnt = 0;}
You can invoke this (assuming the awk source in is a file called
em.awk and your original manuscript is in a file called manuscript) by:
$ awk -f em.awk manuscript
-mark
Yes, this works just fine. I findthat there are about 130 places that
I need to
track... --yeah, i did over-do it in the time-breaks in my story.
Is there a way of printing the string/line in the `manuscript' file
along with the line
number? I'm well into a copyedit of the manuscript and would rather
not start over!
thanks for this.
:wq
Sorry:: sounds a bit moronic:: not print the blank line/newline! but
print the
NR-1-th line.
--
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?
in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several newlines to indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or whatever. i have lost these vertical spacing in all but my original draft. can i use grep somehow to find these extra newlines? if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?! tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
