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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Difficult problem: Complex text file manipulation in bash script. Post 302557276 by tinman47 on Tuesday 20th of September 2011 07:11:28 PM
Old 09-20-2011
Move around as in, moving around in a text document, adding for example the letter "a" on the 2nd line, 4th space. Interactively moving around the document and putting text in certain places with a bash script.
 

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ZATHURA(1)																ZATHURA(1)

NAME
zathura - a document viewer SYNOPOSIS
zathura [OPTION]... zathura [OPTION]... FILE zathura [OPTION]... FILE PASSWORD DESCRIPTION
zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction. OPTIONS
-e [xid], --reparent [xid] Reparents to window specified by xid -c [path], --config-dir [path] Path to the config directory -d [path], --data-dir [path] Path to the data directory -p [path], --plugins-dir [path] Path to the directory containing plugins --fork Fork into the background MOUSE AND KEY BINDINGS
J, K Go to the next or previous page h, k, j, l Scroll to the left, down, up or right direction Left, Down, Up, Right Scroll to the left, down, up or right direction ^t, ^d, ^u, ^y Scroll a half page left, down, up or right t, ^f, ^b, space, <S-space>, y Scroll a full page left, down, up or right gg, G, nG Goto to the first, the last or to the nth page ^c, Escape Abort a, s Adjust window in best-fit or width mode /, ? Search for text n, N Search for the next or previous result o, O Open document f Follow links : Enter command r Rotate by 90 degrees ^i Recolor R Reload document Tab Show index and switch to Index mode F5 Switch to fullscreen mode ^m Toggle inputbar ^n Toggle statusbar +, -, = Zoom in, out or to the original size zI, zO, z0 Zoom in, out or to the original size n= Zoom to size n mX Set a quickmark to a letter or number X 'X Goto quickmark saved at letter or number X q Quit Index mode k, j Move to upper or lower entry l Expand entry L Expand all entries h Collapse entry H Collapse all entries space, Return Select and open entry Mouse bindings Scroll Scroll up or down ^Scroll Zoom in or out Hold Button2 Pan the document Button1 Follow link COMMANDS
bmark Save a bookmark bdelete Delete a bookmark blist List bookmarks close Close document info Show document information help Show help page open, o Open a document offset Set page offset print Print document write, write! Save document (and force overwriting) export Export attachments CONFIGURATION
The default appearance and behaviour of zathura can be overwritten by modifying the zathurarc file (default path: ~/.config/zathura/zathu- rarc). For a detailed description please consult zathurarc(5). SEE ALSO
zathurarc(5) AUTHOR
pwmt.org 0.1.2 ZATHURA(1)
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