Hi, thanks for responding,
No, dots are not replaced. The idea is to put random paragraph breaks in a chunk of text, every 5 - 10 sentences, for example.
Yes I'm open to any other method.
Generally speaking: you have two problems to solve if you are using sed for this: the first is to generate a random number. Probably it will take a big lot of effort to do so (although it should in principle be possible because sed is a turing-complete language).
The second is that you are not working context-free: this is always a hassle because sed has little to offer save for a powerful regex-engine. Such problems are generally more easily solved in awk becuse this offers a programming language in addition to the regex engine.
Hi All,
I'm trying to write a ksh script to parse a file. When the "\" character is encountered, it should be removed and the next line should be concatenated with the current line. For example...
this is a test
line #1\
should be concatenated with line #2\
and line number 3
when this... (3 Replies)
Hi,
My input has much more lines, but few of them are below
pin(IDF) {
direction : input;
drc_pinsigtype : signal;
pin(SELDIV6) {
direction : input;
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Good afternoon all,
I'm hoping my newbie question can help bolster someone's street_cred.sh today.
I'm trying to "fingerprint" SQL on its way into the rdbms for a benchmarking process (so I can tie the resource allocation back to the process more precisely).
To do this, I'm essentially... (4 Replies)
Hello everyone
Sorry I have to add another sed question. I am searching a log file and need only the first 2 occurances of text which comes after (note the space) "string " and before a ",". I have tried
sed -n 's/.*string \(*\),.*/\1/p' filewith some, but limited success. This gives out all... (10 Replies)
logs:
"/home/abc/public_html/index.php"
"/home/abc/public_html/index.php"
"/home/xyz/public_html/index.php"
"/home/xyz/public_html/index.php"
"/home/xyz/public_html/index.php"
how to use "cut" or "awk" or "sed" to get the following result:
abc
abc
xyz
xyz
xyz (8 Replies)
Hi
I am having file :
1|2443094 |FUNG SIU TO |CLEMENT
2|2443095 |FUNG KIL FO |REMENT
This file contains only 3 fields delimeted by "|". Last field is a decsription filed and it contains character "|". Due to this my output if breaking in 4 fields. I... (7 Replies)
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text::lorem
Text::Lorem(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::Lorem(3pm)NAME
Text::Lorem - Generate random Latin looking text
SYNOPSIS
use Text::Lorem;
my $text = Text::Lorem->new();
# Generate a string of text with 5 words
$words = $text->words(5);
# Generate a string of text with 2 sentences
$sentences = $text->sentences(2);
# Generate 3 paragraphs
$paragraphs = $text->paragraphs(3);
DESCRIPTION
Often when developing a website or other application it's important to have placeholders for content. This module generates prescribed
amounts of fake Latin text.
CONSTRUCTOR
"new()"
The default constructor, "new()" takes no arguments and returns a Text::Lorem object.
METHODS
"words( INTEGER )"
Returns INTEGER fake Latin words.
"sentences( INTEGER )"
Returns INTEGER sentences in fake Latin.
"paragraphs( INTEGER )"
Returns INTEGER paragraphs of fake Latin text.
THANKS
Thanks to the guys who pushed me off the cliff called comfort and into the scary world of Perl: James Duncan, Leon Brocard.
AUTHOR
Adeola Awoyemi (adeola@fotango.com)
SEE ALSO
L<WWW::Lipsum> and L<http://lipsum.com/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2003 Fotango Ltd. All rights reserved. <http://opensource.fotango.com/> This software is released under the same license as Perl
itself.
perl v5.10.1 2011-01-05 Text::Lorem(3pm)