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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Print one sentence 40 to 50 words end with period in a file Post 302952081 by lxdorney on Thursday 13th of August 2015 11:32:02 AM
Old 08-13-2015
Print one sentence 40 to 50 words end with period in a file
Hi All,

Is there another way to achieve this?
how get short phrase in a sentence with character count of 100 to 155 words end with period but don't end something like 50,000. .

Here's my current script but the output is not good. This will use for my snippets or preview.

Code:
grep '.\>.\{100,155\}' trim.txt -m 1
 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of the river  The quick brown fox jumps over the P50,000.00 lazy dog near the bank of  the river. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of  the river The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of  the river.

What I want the output is this:
Code:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of the river  The quick brown fox jumps over the P50,000.00 lazy dog near the bank of  the river.

Code:
#cat test.txt 

The quick brown fox jumps.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of the river.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of the river The quick brown fox jumps over the P50,000.00 lazy dog near the bank of the river. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of the river The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of the river.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of the riverThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of the riverThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of the river The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of the river 
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the bank of the river.

Last edited by lxdorney; 08-13-2015 at 12:51 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

diction

DICTION(1)							   User commands							DICTION(1)

NAME

       diction - print wordy and commonly misused phrases in sentences

SYNOPSIS

       diction [-b] [-d] [-f file [-n|-L language]] [file...]
       diction [--beginner] [--ignore-double-words] [--file file [--no-default-file|--language language]] [file...]
       diction -h|--help
       diction --version

DESCRIPTION

       Diction	finds  all  sentences  in a document that contain phrases from a database of frequently misused, bad or wordy diction.	It further
       checks for double words.  If no files are given, the document is read from standard input.  Each found phrase is enclosed in  [	]  (brack-
       ets).   Suggestions  and  advice, if any and if asked for, are printed headed by a right arrow ->.  A sentence is a sequence of words, that
       starts with a capitalised word and ends with a full stop, double colon, question mark or exclaimation mark.  A single letter followed by  a
       dot  is	considered  an	abbreviation, so it does not terminate a sentence.  Various multi-letter abbreviations are recognized, they do not
       terminate a sentence as well, neither do fractional numbers.

       Diction understands cpp(1) #line lines for being able to give precise locations when printing sentences.

OPTIONS

       -b, --beginner
	      Complain about mistakes typically made by beginners.

       -d, --ignore-double-words
	      Ignore double words and do not complain about them.

       -s, --suggest
	      Suggest better wording, if any.

       -f file, --file file
	      Read the user specified database from the specified file in addition to the default database.

       -n, --no-default-file
	      Do not read the default database, so only the user-specified database is used.

       -L language, --language language
	      Set the phrase file language.

       -h, --help
	      Print a short usage message.

       --version
	      Print the version.

ERRORS

       On usage errors, 1 is returned.	Termination caused by lack of memory is signalled by exit code 2.

EXAMPLE

       The following example first removes all roff constructs and headers from a document and feeds the result to diction with a German database:

	      deroff -s file.mm | diction -L de | fmt

ENVIRONMENT

       LC_MESSAGES=de|en
	      specifies the message language and is also used as default for the phrase language.  The default language is en.

FILES

       /usr/share/diction/*	databases for various languages

AUTHOR

       This program is GNU software, copyright 1997-2005 Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>.

       The English phrase file contains contributions by Greg Lindahl <lindahl@pbm.com>, Wil Baden, Gary D. Kline, Kimberly Hanks and Beth Morris.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as  published	by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This  program  is  distributed  in  the	hope  that  it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.  If not, write to the Free Software  Foundation,
       Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

HISTORY

       There has been a diction command on old UNIX systems, which is now part of the AT&T DWB package.  The original version was bound to roff by
       enforcing a call to deroff.  This version is a reimplementation and must run in a pipe with deroff(1) if you want  to  process  roff  docu-
       ments.  Similarly, you can run it in a pipe with dehtml(1) or detex(1) to process HTML or TeX documents.

SEE ALSO

       deroff(1), fmt(1), style(1)

       Cherry, L.L.; Vesterman, W.: Writing Tools--The STYLE and DICTION programs, Computer Science Technical Report 91, Bell Laboratories, Murray
       Hill, N.J. (1981), republished as part of the 4.4BSD User's Supplementary Documents by O'Reilly.

       Strunk, William: The elements of style, Ithaca, N.Y.: Priv. print., 1918, http://coba.shsu.edu/help/strunk/

GNU
								   June 09, 2006							DICTION(1)
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