jhc@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU (01/27/89)
Hello. Our implementation of the news software, because it is run in Eunice on top of VAX/VMS, has some shortcomings. One of these, is that, when using Pnews or Rnmail, the Reply-To: line does not include your real name, just a pair of parenthesis. I would like to add a line to my personalised copies of Pnews and Rnmail to automate adding in the realname info. Unfortunately, I'm having difficulty getting the sed line correct. Specifically, I want sed to find the line that starts Reply-To: and then replace any instances of () with ($REALNAME) where $REALNAME is the value of the environmental variable REALNAME, and where the parenthesis are in the file. Perhaps it would be more understandable liek this: what we have: \050\051 what we want: \050($REALNAME)\051 where: \nnn is the character specified by nnn ascii, nnn in octal and: ($CCC) is the value of the env. variable named CCC. As an alternative, I would accept having a specific string inserted between the parenthesis on the Reply-To: line rather than the value of the env. variable. Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any help in this. P.S. Pnews & Rnamil are written in sh, for those unfamiliar w/ those 2 scripts. -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. "Entropy isn't what it used to be." jhc@Crnlvax5.BITNET --c/o Fortune @ batcomputer.UUCP jhc@Vax5.CIT.Cornell.EDU #include <std_disclaimers.h> cornell!vax1!vax5.cit.cornell.edu!jhc@rochester.UUCP B-7 Upson Hall, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY 14853 +1 607 272 4519
leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) (01/28/89)
In article <17810@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> jhc@Vax5.CIT.Cornell.EDU (James H. Cloos, Jr.) writes: [] |I'm having difficulty getting the sed line correct. Specifically, I want |sed to find the line that starts Reply-To: and then replace any instances of |() with ($REALNAME) where $REALNAME is the value of the environmental |variable REALNAME, and where the parenthesis are in the file. [] sed '/^Reply-To:/s/()/('$REALNAME')/g' your_file Since the $REALNAME is outside quotes, it is expanded by the shell. Leo.
leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) (01/28/89)
In article <938@philmds.UUCP> leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes: |sed '/^Reply-To:/s/()/('$REALNAME')/g' your_file Sorry, I was too fast. This fails if $REALNAME contains spaces. Better do it like this (assuming you're using a Bourne shell): sed "/^Reply-To:/s/()/($REALNAME)/g" your_file Leo.
merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) (01/30/89)
In article <938@philmds.UUCP>, leo@philmds (Leo de Wit) writes: | sed '/^Reply-To:/s/()/('$REALNAME')/g' your_file | | Since the $REALNAME is outside quotes, it is expanded by the shell. Including the spaces. This will break for REALNAME="Randal L. Schwartz". Try instead: sed "/^Reply-To:/s!()!(${REALNAME-$USER})!g" your_file where "!" should probably be replaced with a control-G or some other very very unlikely character in REALNAME for safety. Enjoy. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 on contract to BiiN (for now :-), Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. ARPA: <@iwarp.intel.com:merlyn@intelob.intel.com> (fastest!) MX-Internet: <merlyn@intelob.intel.com> UUCP: ...[!uunet]!tektronix!biin!merlyn Standard disclaimer: I *am* my employer! Cute quote: "Welcome to Oregon... home of the California Raisins!"
leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) (01/31/89)
In article <4094@omepd.UUCP> merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) writes: |In article <938@philmds.UUCP>, leo@philmds (Leo de Wit) writes: || sed '/^Reply-To:/s/()/('$REALNAME')/g' your_file || || Since the $REALNAME is outside quotes, it is expanded by the shell. | |Including the spaces. This will break for REALNAME="Randal L. Schwartz". |Try instead: | | sed "/^Reply-To:/s!()!(${REALNAME-$USER})!g" your_file | |where "!" should probably be replaced with a control-G or some other |very very unlikely character in REALNAME for safety. If you had taken the trouble to read my own follow-up (sent out 5 min. later, where I use the " quoting too), this reply hadn't been necessary. You were probably as hasty to reply to my article as I was to get it out 8-). Perhaps I'd better cancelled the first message ... Leo.
smaxwell@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Susan Maxwell) (04/11/89)
Got a sed question for you: I'm creating a sed filter to mask out and
delete unwanted characters in a trace file. I'm having trouble with this
configuration:
LINE I: PROMPT>
LINE I+1: >
LINE I+2: <
Whenever I see this series, I want to delete ALL THREE lines. I can't
create a pattern /PROMPT\>\\n\>\\n\</d as far as I can tell, because
sed won't allow patterns to span lines. Is there a way to do this, without
resorting to awk or ed?
Susan Maxwellmaart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (04/13/89)
smaxwell@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Susan Maxwell) writes: \ LINE I: PROMPT> \ LINE I+1: > \ LINE I+2: < \Whenever I see this series, I want to delete ALL THREE lines. sed -n ' /^PROMPT>$/{ h n H /^>$/{ n /^<$/b H } g } p ' -- "If it isn't aesthetically pleasing, |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam: it's probably wrong." (jim@bilpin). |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart
steinbac@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Guenter Steinbach) (11/30/90)
In comp.unix.questions, bm@bike2work.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Michel) writes: > All I want to do is match the first word (all caps) on each line. > My input looks like > Shortname > -------------------- > IPCINSTALL > DESKSET > SS2INSTALL > and I'm trying sed -n '/^ *[A-Z0-9]*/p' without success (the output is > exactly the same as the input). That is because * matches 0 or more occurrences. So you are in effect asking for "first 0 or more blanks, then 0 or more capital letters" - that is all lines, regardless of content, since you don't specify what comes after those two. Try this: sed -n '/^ *[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9]* *$/p' ^^^^^^^^ ^ ^ At least one capital | | latter. | | | | The lines in your posting have | trailing blanks. Put the blank| inside the brackets if you | want to match multiple capital | words. | | This prevents matching lines with anything but capitals, numbers, and blanks. Good luck! Guenter Steinbach gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com