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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed filtering lines by range fails 1-line-ranges Post 302724043 by bakunin on Wednesday 31st of October 2012 07:02:30 AM
Old 10-31-2012
Thanks for the man page quote. Either i am blind or the AIX man page doesn't mention this detail. But this is at least an explanation.

Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
from the man page:
Not sure how to circumvent... will the </value> tag be always be in the same line ?
No, this is what led me to trying my solution in first place. As you can see from the example text all but the innermost tags are on separate lines.

I will post the reworked script as soon as i have it ready. Thanks.

bakunin
 

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fvwm-perllib(1) 						  Fvwm Utilities						   fvwm-perllib(1)

NAME
fvwm-perllib - shows the documentation of the Fvwm Perl library SYNOPSIS
fvwm-perllib [ --help|-h|-? ] [ --version|-v|-V ] [ man [ Perl::Class ] ] [ cat [ Perl::Class ] ] [ raw [ Perl::Class ] ] [ dir ] DESCRIPTION
Starting from fvwm-2.5.x versions there is a built-in support for creating fvwm modules in Perl. This fvwm-perllib utility provides help services for the fvwm Perl library. OPTIONS
--help show the help and exit --version show the version and exit --man or man [ Perl::Class ] show manual page just like man(1) --cat or cat [ Perl::Class ] show manual page in plain text --raw or raw [ Perl::Class ] generate output in man format (not human readable) --dir or dir print perllib directory without a trailing end of line USAGE
Use this in the fvwm modules written in Perl: use lib `fvwm-perllib dir`; Introduction to the Fvwm Perl library: % fvwm-perllib man Manual page for the "FVWM::Module" class: % fvwm-perllib man FVWM::Module Standard options: % fvwm-perllib --help % fvwm-perllib --version AUTHORS
Mikhael Goikhman <migo@homemail.com>. COPYING
The script is distributed by the same terms as fvwm itself. See GNU General Public License for details. BUGS
No known bugs. Report bugs to fvwm-bug@fvwm.org. perl v5.8.0 2003-03-11 fvwm-perllib(1)
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