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Re: [Plug] grep, awk, sed ?
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How about...
perl -e 'undef $/;$_ = <STDIN>;print "$&\n" if /\[$1[^\]]*\]/ms;' spectrophotometer <diary.txt
Walt
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 09:57:17AM -0400, root wrote:
>
>
> I enjoyed the recent flurry of response to someone's question about 'rm *'-- it
> seemed to point out that there are lots of smart and experienced Unix people on
> this list. I read the responses and learned some useful things that I might
> have known had I ever actually been taught about Unix!
>
> I seem to be constantly trying new organizers, calendars, and ways of keeping
> notes on my projects, but I generally wind up back at the point of keeping a
> day by day text diary of my work. ASCII files seem so quick, simple, and
> universal compared to GUI based approaches.
>
> The thing is, I'd like to mark entries that I put in my text based diary, so I
> can scan for them by subject later, when I've forgotten when I worked on things.
>
> If my text file is:
>
> ---------
> 6/9/99
> called Roy
> [spectrophotometer..
> added timebased acquisition code to Mac program
> replaced HiliteControl approach with gMode approach
> ]
> went for a jog
> blah blah blah
>
> -------
>
> The Question is:
> How can I print the lines between the [] brackets, using the subject
> ('spectrophotometer') to search?
>
> The grep is not so good, since the command
> grep "spectrophotometer.." diary.txt -10
>
> prints 20 lines with the file name at the beginning of each line and, anyway,
> it would be much better if it would stop when it to the ']'.
>
> Is there some slick way to do this with awk or sed or some other utility? I'd
> generally just like to see the text blocks in a text terminal window, but I
> suppose I could pipe them into a project file, too, which would probably be
> handy.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Ben
>
>
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> Current Designs, Inc.
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> Philadelphia, PA 19104-2420
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