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Old 06-02-2012
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Originally Posted by jawsnnn
If you don't want to rely on properly formatted code, here is a script that keeps track of left and right parentheses counts to do this

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
count_prev=0
count=0
mask=false
while read line
do
  if [ `echo $line | grep -cw HOME` -eq 1 ]; then
    mask=true
    count_l=0
    count_r=0
    count=0
  fi  
  let count_l=count_l+`echo $line | grep -c '('`
  let count_r=count_r+`echo $line | grep -c ')'`
  count=$(expr $count_l - $count_r)
  if [ $mask == "false" ]; then
    echo $line
  elif [ $count_prev -eq 0 -a $count -eq 0 ]; then
    echo $line
    mask=false
  fi  
  count_prev=$count
done < in_file

wow, i will test this and come back. Thanx a lot Smilie
 
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PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files... DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves through the pango ft2 backend. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. --landscape Landscape output. Default is portrait. --columns=cl Number of columns output. Default is 1. --font=desc Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12. --rtl Do rtl layout. --paper ps Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter, a4. Default is A4. --bottom-margin=bm Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36. --top-margin=tm Set top margin. Default is 36. --left-margin=lm Set left margin. Default is 36. --right-margin=rm Set right margin. Default is 36. --help Show summary of options. --header Draw page header for each page. --markup Interpret the text as pango markup. --encoding=ENCODING Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING. --lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing. --cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size. --stretch-chars Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops behaviour. AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)