10-03-2011
Ok thanks durden_tyler I forgot about the power of perl - it is a more elegant solution. That said the sed thing will still bother me for a bit.
Also I've realised I need to do a bit more work yet. In order to present the data in conky more flexibly I have realised that I need to execute the script in conky for each instance of tide time - that is separately. I suspect I will need to create a variable that can be passed from each of the lines in conky to the script which will have a perl loop that loops to the specific instance of tide time based on the passed variable. Looks like a bit of mugging up on perl may be required! Thanks again.
---------- Post updated at 10:26 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:32 AM ----------
I'm a dunderhead. I can use tail and head to output the specific line of course. Problem solved.
Thanks again for the help.
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