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Old 10-02-2013
Hammer & Screwdriver Find and Append
I'm not sure this is the *best* idea but it's what occurs to me:
I have a long bibliographical list where the entries are in a variety of forms. So, there's no consistent format.
I can pretty much find the year of publication buried in each line. Everything else is a bit of a mess. So, human intervention is going to be necessary but I'd like to help that as much as possible.
So my thought is to find things and add them to the end of the line in each case. The year for example.
Then, I figure one could add other strings to the end that look "likely" for the title, author(s), etc.

I'd be happy right now simply knowing how to append what's found to the end of the line - so it will stand out to a reader/editor. Surely some amount of debugging will be needed and this seems like it would help the most.
# 2  
Old 10-02-2013
It's best to post examples. In these cases I try to find some sort of consistency that will at least separate the original file into a series of similar cases.
# 3  
Old 10-02-2013
Here's the example that I have to work with....
Ackoff RL.txt (1.8 KB) 
# 4  
Old 10-02-2013
Sorry, this one has proper line breaks......
Ackoff RL.txt (1.7 KB) 
# 5  
Old 10-03-2013
Since year are always present in parentheses, you can do like this to get it out at end of line.
Code:
awk -F"[()]" '{print $0 "," $2}' file

Other stuff are more difficult since it varies.
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Old 10-03-2013
You may want to test this as a starting point, but, as there's no general structure to the file, further refinement becomes difficult:
Code:
sed 's/\(.*\)(/Author:\t\1\nYear:\t/;s/\(.*\))/\1\n\Title:\t/;s/$/\n/'  /tmp/Ackoff\ RL.txt
Author:    Ackoff RL 
Year:    1974
Title:    . Redesigning the Future. John Wiley & Sons: New York.

Author:    Ackoff RL and Gharajedaghi J 
Year:    1996
Title:    . Reflections on systems and their models. Syst Res Behav Sci 13: 13-22. 

Author:    Ackoff R.L. and Sasieni M.W. 
Year:    1968
Title:    . Fundamentals of Operations Research. Wiley: New York.

Author:    Ackoff R 
Year:    1999
Title:     Re-creating the corporation: a design of organizations for the 21st century. Oxford University Press, New York

Author:    Ackoff Russell et al. 
Year:    1976
Title:     Designing a national scientific and technological communications systems: The SCATT Report. 

Author:    Russel L Ackoff 
Year:    1981
Title:    . Creating the Corporate Future. John Wiley and Sons: New York.

Author:    Anupindi R, Chopra S, Deshmukh SD, Van Mieghem JA, Zemel E 
Year:    2006
Title:     Managing business process flows. Principles of operations management, 2nd edn. Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River

Author:    Argyris, C. 
Year:    1982
Title:    , Reasoning, Learning, and Action, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.

Author:    Arthur, W.B. 
Year:    1999
Title:    , "Complexity and the economy", Science, Vol. 284 No. 5411, pp. 107-9.

Author:    Anderson, P. 
Year:    1999
Title:    , 'Complexity theory and organization science', Organization Science, Vol. 10 No. 3, pp. 216-32.

Roundy S., M. Strasser, and P. K. Wright, Powering Ambient Intelligent Networks. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.

Author:    Julie Ann Stuart, Jane C. Ammons and Laura J. Turbini 
Year:    1999
Title:     A Product and Process Selection Model with Multidisciplinary Environmental Considerations, March�April 1999; Operations Research, 47: 221�234.

Author:    [17] Kaplan, R.S. 
Year:    1983
Title:    , "Measuring performance - a new challenge for managerial accounting research", The Accounting Review, Vol. 58 No. 4,1983, pp. 686-705.

Author:    22. Kauffman S 
Year:    1995
Title:    . At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity, 1st edn. Oxford University Press: New York, USA.

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