Yes, sorry. It's just clever escaping. Like one would ps | grep [s]omething. I began to use this more because in awk, depending on quoting/context, often times you need to escape your escapes since they're really processed twice, and it gets ugly so I tend to avoid \ when possible now.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
And NeutronScott's approach..
Code:
sed 's/[^[]*[[]\([^]]*\)]\(\[.*\]\)*/\1 --/' file
(the original will fail with more than two square bracket episodes)
The * after the grouping allows it to repeat. But I see mine doesn't perform correctly in the last two cases.
Code:
mute@thedoctor:~$ cat input
this is spam [i need this][this is spam][another one][last] and i need this too
this is spam [i need this] probably everything [here] too
this is spam [i need this] and probably i need ] everything here too?
mute@thedoctor:~$ sed 's/[^[]*[[]\([^]]*\)]\([[][^]]*]\)*\([^]]*\)$/\1 -- \3/g' input
i need this -- and i need this too
this is spam [here -- too
this is spam [i need this] and probably i need ] everything here too?
mute@thedoctor:~$ sed 's/[^[]*[[]\([^]]*\)]\(\[.*\]\)*/\1 --/' input
i need this -- and i need this too
i need this -- probably everything [here] too
i need this -- and probably i need ] everything here too?
I also didn't think of not needing to match & sub the last part. That's definitely shorter.
One of the senior administrators gave me a shell script to modify and it begins as follows:
if ] && ]
{more code follows}
Why the double square brackets? (10 Replies)
Hi,
I just came across an interesting shell script syntax like the one below:
] && (trap 'rm -rf ${WORK_DIR}/*.$$; echo "\n\nInterrupted !!\n\n"; exit 4' 1 2 3 15)
Can someone please explain the code snippet above?
The trap command bit is fine but ] && is the hazy part.
Generally we use an... (2 Replies)
Hello,
Can someone please explain to me the following line,
] && break
I do not understand why two test square brackets are used.
Thanks,
Shantanu
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And, also why there's a $ before (echo $c |... (5 Replies)
hi guys,
i'm writing a script that looks for a unquie id in a file and replaces a string between two square brackets on the same line as the unquie id:
.......
.......
0001 zz 43242 replace this text] name
0002 sd 65466 UK] country
.......
.......
how can i find line with id 0001... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a text file which looks like this:
computer programming
systems engineering
I want to get rid of these square brackets and also the text that is inside these brackets. So that my final text file looks like this:
computer programming
systems engineering
I am using... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
After searching about this, I could find some solutions but I am not sure why it is not working in my case.
I have a text file with contents between two square brackets. The text file looks like this:
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20140320 00:08:43.918 INO 35] - Corporate hub is
20140320 00:08:43.918... (2 Replies)
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Suppose I have lines like :
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20140320 00:08:23.846 INFO 84] - anything in line
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Hope you all are doing good. Yesterday in my project i came across a scenario which i can not guess why it was working in one region and why it was not in another region. Please find my issue below.
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Discussion started by: mad man
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
ppmtosixel
ppmtosixel(1) General Commands Manual ppmtosixel(1)NAME
ppmtosixel - convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format
SYNOPSIS
ppmtosixel [-raw] [-margin] [ppmfile]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable pixmap as input. Produces sixel commands (SIX) as output. The output is formatted for color printing, e.g. for a DEC
LJ250 color inkjet printer.
If RGB values from the PPM file do not have maxval=100, the RGB values are rescaled. A printer control header and a color assignment table
begin the SIX file. Image data is written in a compressed format by default. A printer control footer ends the image file.
OPTIONS -raw If specified, each pixel will be explicitly described in the image file. If -raw is not specified, output will default to com-
pressed format in which identical adjacent pixels are replaced by "repeat pixel" commands. A raw file is often an order of magni-
tude larger than a compressed file and prints much slower.
-margin
If -margin is not specified, the image will be start at the left margin (of the window, paper, or whatever). If -margin is speci-
fied, a 1.5 inch left margin will offset the image.
PRINTING
Generally, sixel files must reach the printer unfiltered. Use the lpr -x option or cat filename > /dev/tty0?.
BUGS
Upon rescaling, truncation of the least significant bits of RGB values may result in poor color conversion. If the original PPM maxval was
greater than 100, rescaling also reduces the image depth. While the actual RGB values from the ppm file are more or less retained, the
color palette of the LJ250 may not match the colors on your screen. This seems to be a printer limitation.
SEE ALSO ppm(5)AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1991 by Rick Vinci.
26 April 1991 ppmtosixel(1)
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