02-09-2008
KevinADC - I really appreciate your response here.
It works! When I run your perl script, I get these results:
$ cat newnames.txt
John A Smith NY
Adam J Clark PA
Despite my vague requirements, you understood them perfectly.
I am trying to decipher the workhorse part of the script you wrote:
while (<>){
chomp;
#Assign variables to fixed width sections using unpack.
my ($first,$mi,$last,$state) = unpack("a10a2a11a2",$_);
#Remove whitespace from variables.
(s/^\s*//, s/\s*$//) for ($first,$mi,$last,$state);
#Please describe what is going on here.
$names{"$first,$last"}={count => ++$count{"$first,$last"},
name => "$first $mi $last $state",
};
}
Thanks again.
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX
deb-triggers
deb-triggers(5) dpkg suite deb-triggers(5)
NAME
deb-triggers - package triggers
SYNOPSIS
triggers
DESCRIPTION
A package declares its relationship to some trigger(s) by including a triggers file in its control archive (i.e. DEBIAN/triggers during
package creation).
This file contains directives, one per line. Leading and trailing whitespace and everything after the first # on any line will be trimmed,
and empty lines will be ignored.
The trigger control directives currently supported are:
interest trigger-name
interest-await trigger-name
interest-noawait trigger-name
Specifies that the package is interested in the named trigger. All triggers in which a package is interested must be listed using
this directive in the triggers control file. The "noawait" variant does not put the triggering packages in triggers-awaited state.
This should be used when the functionality provided by the trigger is not crucial.
activate trigger-name
activate-await trigger-name
activate-noawait trigger-name
Arranges that changes to this package's state will activate the specified trigger. The trigger will be activated at the start of the
following operations: unpack, configure, remove (including for the benefit of a conflicting package), purge and deconfigure. The
"noawait" variant does not put the triggering packages in triggers-awaited state. This should be used when the functionality
provided by the trigger is not crucial.
If this package disappears during the unpacking of another package the trigger will be activated when the disappearance is noted
towards the end of the unpack. Trigger processing, and transition from triggers-awaited to installed, does not cause activations.
In the case of unpack, triggers mentioned in both the old and new versions of the package will be activated.
Unknown directives are an error which will prevent installation of the package.
The "-noawait" variants should always be favored when possible since triggering packages are not put in triggers-awaited state and can thus
be immediately configured without requiring the processing of the trigger. If the triggering packages are dependencies of other upgraded
packages, it will avoid an early trigger processing run and make it possible to run the trigger only once as one of the last steps of the
upgrade.
The "-noawait" variants are supported since dpkg 1.16.1, and will lead to errors if used with an older dpkg.
The "-await" alias variants are supported since dpkg 1.17.21, and will lead to errors if used with an older dpkg.
SEE ALSO
dpkg-trigger(1), dpkg(1), /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev/triggers.txt.gz.
1.19.0.5 2018-04-16 deb-triggers(5)