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Operating Systems Linux Gentoo cpu%/mem% usage, scripting, dzen2: howto learn bash the hard way Post 302221461 by era on Monday 4th of August 2008 01:19:20 PM
Old 08-04-2008
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Originally Posted by broli
so, if i read your post correctly, with awk i can simulate sime functions of tail or head...
what about sort?
Modern versions of awk have a sort command. I'm not sure if it was included even in the original awk.

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well. i see now, that perl is a best solution than bash. after all perl was made to process text right? :P
and perl has always been in my todo-list
the problem there would be to pipe the info to dzen
because the way dzen works, i need an never ending loop, so dzen dosnt die
is posible to do that piping from a perl script?
Certainly, but I'm not really suggesting you move to Perl just for this. There are really two schools of thought on this; skip awk, and only learn Perl; or move to Perl if you run into situations which awk cannot handle comfortably. If you need to process binary data or very large data sets, Perl was designed to overcome the limitations awk have in those areas.

But the requirements you have shown so far should be easy to handle in awk; it's just not clear from reading the code in which direction you want the script to grow, and/or I was too lazy to rewrite it all.
 

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PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)					      General Commands Manual					     PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)

NAME
pct-scanner-script - easy scan and create merged DjVu and PDF documents for archiving SYNOPSIS
pct-scanner-script [--help] DESCRIPTION
pct-scanner-script is a bash script and configuration system to easily scan documents and create a digital archiving. It can create DjVu PDF and JPEG outputs, in merged and individual files. It also has a configuration system where different configurations can be defined, making it easy to switch between configurations. Please use pct-scanner-script --help to find all program options, the complete help, and all examples. Features: - auto archiving in merged and individual DjVu, PDF, and JPEG files - auto and manual resume when scanning somehow fails - cascading configuration system, for easy customizing - easy command-line-style bash program, with useful options - archiving made possible with both adf and flatbed scanners - built for productivity and daily use - uses bash, scanadf and other mainstream processing tools - multilanguage commandline output OPTIONS
-h, --help, -? Show summary of options, help, and examples. DEBUGGING
This program is a helper script to easy scan and automated digital document archiving for normal and adf scanners. You can debug this script by running it as bash -x pct-scanner-script [options]. The script is just a nice wrapper for the scanadf, DjVu and PDF tools. SEE ALSO
scanadf(1), AUTHOR
pct-scanner-script and this manual page are written by: Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@powercraft.nl>. March 31, 2009 PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)
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