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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Pulling data from a standard comment block - perl Post 302300572 by spirtle on Tuesday 24th of March 2009 01:05:44 PM
Old 03-24-2009
Since you are using Perl and I don't know much sed, here's some perl to extract the description.
I guess your biggest problem will be identifying where the description ends. In the following I have put that task into a subroutine so that it can be easily modified and
for starters I assume that a line with only a # on it ends the description.
Code:
foreach my $curapplication ( @curdirectory ){

  unless( open( SRC, "<$curapplication") ) {
    print "Failed to open $curapplication: $!\n";
    next;
  }

  sub description_start {
    $_[0] =~ /^\#\s*Description:/;
  }  

  sub description_end {
    $_[0] =~ /^\#\s*$/;
  }

  my $description = 0;
  while( <SRC> ){
    description_start( $_ ) and $description = 1 and next;
    if( $description ) {
      description_end( $_ ) and $description = 0 and last;
      s/^\#//;
      print;
    }
  }
}

 

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NAME

       uudemon.admin,  uudemon.cleanu,	uudemon.hour,  uudemon.poll  -	Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool
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SYNOPSIS

       These shell scripts reside in the following directory:
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DESCRIPTION

       All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the  scripts,  remove
       the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file.

       This  script  reports  status  to  the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the
       results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID  (uucpa)	or
       root.  This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com-
       mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1.  This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background.  This
       script  polls  the  systems  listed  in	the  /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file.  The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour
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FILES

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