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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions String editing using sed? awk? Post 302370491 by bakunin on Wednesday 11th of November 2009 03:46:47 PM
Old 11-11-2009
First off, your estimation about sed being the right tool is correct. It was written with problems like yours in mind.

BUT: i don't think your are on the right track. The reason is: you create a sort of list and this list is almost correct - almost, but not quite so. Now you want to patch this almost-correct list into something which is indeed correct. The problem is: when you are writing software it is most of the times advisable to do it correctly the first time instead of doing it almost correctly and then patch it.

Instead of creating an sed-script to "patch the list to work" create the list correctly immediately. This is easily possible.

You mention an "above find command", but i cannot find that. So: why don't you put your script so far here and we help you to create not an amost-correct but a correct list.

Btw., i have a suspicion that your find-command (if you have used that alone) will not be giving the correct result either because i don't know of any way to solve your problem (even to the almost-correct state you have) with "find" alone - this would be a rather non-trivial task if it could be done at all (and i suspect it is impossible). This also could be corrected if you provide your work so far.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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