discuss: proposal: text- and file-processing howto
Subject:
RE: proposal: text- and file-processing howto
From:
Tabatha Marshall ####@####.####
Date:
17 Jan 2004 21:42:14 -0000
Message-Id: <1074375706.9227.20.camel@mysticchild>
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 00:00, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> Carla Schroder wrote:
> > I'm assembling a "Text- and File-Processing/Finding Things Howto". A
> > sort of cookbook approach to using sed, awk, bash, Perl, find, grep,
> > etc. Real-life actual useful code, like this:
> >
> > |awk '{t+=$1}END{print t}'
> > Prints the total of numbers in column 1. Useful for things like the
> > output of du(1).
>
> [snip]
>
> Carla,
>
> I think I quite like this idea. There would be a lot of people who would
> benifit from the existance of such "recipe" style document.
>
> But I was also wondering, if a HOWTO would be a right thing in this case
Sounds like a great idea, I agree. Since there is a specific scope to
the document (Text and File manipulation), I think just a really good
title and abstract ought to do the trick. If it's going to be heavy
with little snippets of info, consistency will be important, so you'll
want to really consider the layout.
Tab
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