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Wow, that worked like a charm and was less elaborate than my scheme. It'll take me a bit to understand what you did, I don't know perl at all, but it certainly got the job done. Thank you!

Chris

Here is what I have managed to come up with:


#!/bin/sh
cp ch25.txt ch25.fn.tex
n=`grep -c '^\[' ch25_footnotes.txt`
echo $n

#for i in {1..n}; ### This syntax was not working, for some...

Alright, so this was an uninteresting problem, I guess... no hits at all except for my own! But, I did solve PART of the problem, so for what its worth I am going to explain that... I am sure I am...

PS, I notice that I forgot a semicolon after the for argument... I added that and it still does not run. Thank you!
PPS, I also realized that I should probably have back-ticked the grep and sed...

Hello all, the title makes this sound simple, and maybe it should be.

This is by code:

#!/bin/sh
cp ch25.txt ch25.fn.tex
n=`grep -c '^\[' ch25_footnotes.txt`

for i in {1..$n}
do
...

I'll play with this, thank you! I guess the part of the command that you taught me was the &
I did not know of that function! I'll look it up in the manual... thanks!

Hello!

Here is what I am trying to do: I am taking a class at school that is using a lot of literature that is in the public domain, and available for free on the web. Rather than read them...

Alright, I realized my problem... this can be deleted, I feel silly.

lol

Chris

Hi everyone,

My problem is strange, I cannot think of why this is happening.

I have a set of data that looks like this:



Although it does not look it, the fields are tab delimited. I...

I understand better now, thanks. Unfortunately, I am not doing homework. Just working in a lab where windows is a swear word and I am being motivated to learn shell scripts.

Thank you for your help, mods! I just wanted to let you know that you can close this thread if you like, because I came across a solution. I have never used sed before, but it has the option to...

The awk escape character is a backslash: \
Its also the escape character in vi if you were curious ;)

hmmm... I don't how to ask the question I guess. And I did not understand a lot of what is going on in your suggestion, vgersh99. I feel like I am making this more complicated than I need to. I...

While we are at it, I need to remove a group of subjects from ec 1. I have their subject numbers listed, but I don't know how to use this list to expedite deleting them from the master list or 1.lst.

Alright, this is a sample from all.inq:


The file is enormous so this is only a small chunk of block 6 from subject# 570613667. If you look in my first post, that simplified version should be...

I dont understand how this would work. It looks to me like list would be the file name of my list file, and name would just read in each record in the file (??? I dont know if that is the right...

I thought of a way to simplify the question and make it general.

grep syntax is:

Can you have grep read the pattern from a file, and go line by line through that file and just append all...

Hello! I think this should be an easy solution. I have a large file with many fields of data. The first field has a unique identifier (a subject number) for every record for a chunk of data. ...

With all this help, I completed the project today! I definitely need to get vi up and running on my mac. Doesn't feel very professional working in textedit :o

Wow, that was easy enough. Thank you so much! And here I was thinking that the mac formatting was the same as Unix... good life lesson.

And just to save myself the frustration of trying and...

Good morning,

I am having a problem that I have never had before using awk. I have a txt file that obviously has clear columns and records. When I open the file in textedit, or any other program,...

Hello once again:
One thing that seems to be a nice feature is a progress gauge... so I can see how long an operation will take for a task to complete if it is requiring a lot of processing or the...

Again, I am in need of some advice.

Earlier I was shown how to have awk create folders for me. That was so cool and helpful, but now I am exploring the posibilities of combining operations with...

thanks so much guys!

Alright, I am sure this is a laughable question, but I don't know so I am going to ask anyway.

I have a little script I am writing to take information from one source, recode it in a certain way,...