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;
drc_pinsigtype : ... (3 Replies)
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)