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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting count and number instances of a character in sed or awk Post 302574990 by maouinin on Saturday 19th of November 2011 01:01:55 PM
Old 11-19-2011
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you. This is exactly the type of thing I was looking for. My sed skills are rudimentary and my awk not even up to that level, but this gives me somewhere to start. I don't know if *roff can handle it at formatting time either, but this may just help me avoid trying to find out -- user/newbie friendly, *roff documentation is not terribly common.

Thanks again!

---------- Post updated at 02:01 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:37 AM ----------

This seems to be an excellent start, but one small hiccup: running it on the following text gives mostly the desired results:

Code:
I am =honored to be with you =today at your commencement =from =one =of =the =finest universities in the world. I never =graduated from =college. Truth be told, this is the =closest I've =ever =gotten to a =college =graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories =from =my =life. That's it. =No =big =deal. Just three stories.


Results in :
Code:
I am __________[1] to be with you __________[2] at your commencement __________[3] __________[4] __________[5] __________[6] __________[7] universities in the world. I never __________[8] from __________[9] Truth be told, this is the __________[10] I've __________[11] __________[12] to a __________[9]=graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories __________[3] __________[13] __________[14] That's it. __________[15] __________[16] __________[17] Just three stories.

The __________[18] __________[19] is __________[20] connecting the __________[21]

Things go slightly haywire around the word "graduation." What might be going on?
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GLUPERSPECTIVE(3G)														GLUPERSPECTIVE(3G)

NAME
gluPerspective - set up a perspective projection matrix C SPECIFICATION
void gluPerspective( GLdouble fovy, GLdouble aspect, GLdouble zNear, GLdouble zFar ) PARAMETERS
fovy Specifies the field of view angle, in degrees, in the y direction. aspect Specifies the aspect ratio that determines the field of view in the x direction. The aspect ratio is the ratio of x (width) to y (height). zNear Specifies the distance from the viewer to the near clipping plane (always positive). zFar Specifies the distance from the viewer to the far clipping plane (always positive). DESCRIPTION
gluPerspective specifies a viewing frustum into the world coordinate system. In general, the aspect ratio in gluPerspective should match the aspect ratio of the associated viewport. For example, aspect=2.0 means the viewer's angle of view is twice as wide in x as it is in y. If the viewport is twice as wide as it is tall, it displays the image without distortion. The matrix generated by gluPerspective is multipled by the current matrix, just as if glMultMatrix were called with the generated matrix. To load the perspective matrix onto the current matrix stack instead, precede the call to gluPerspective with a call to glLoadIdentity. Given f defined as follows: f=cotangent(____) The generated matrix is (______ 0 0 0 ) 0 f 0 0 0 0 __________ _____________ 0 0 -1 0 NOTES
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glFrustum(3G), glLoadIdentity(3G), glMultMatrix(3G), gluOrtho2D(3G) GLUPERSPECTIVE(3G)
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