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Problem with old(ish) devices on new(ish) distros
I been playing around w. open source *nixes since the mid 90's and have been using Linux as the system running my home computer since 2000/2001. During all of that time I have used a trackball attached to my serial port and (for most of it) an HP Deskjet 540C attached to a parallel port. I...- menski
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Towards more colourful Awk scripting: using ANSI
This is by way of a tip. I have always used ANSI codes to display colour error messages or warning signals in batch files etc. When I moved to Linux I was looking for a way to continue using them. There is plenty of good stuff on the internet (a search on Google using "\330 ANSI"... -
On the curious behaviour of variables!
Given that I have the folloiwing chunk of program: BEGIN { FS = ":" print "\n AWKSEARCH - Start: for (i=2; i < ARGC; i++) { if (ARGV[i] == "-d") {disponly = "y"} else if (ARGV[i] == "-f") {fileonly = "y"} else if (ARGV[i] ==... -
Running a command from within a variable?
Some languages allow you to put a command into a variable which will then run when the variable is called. eg: print_field = "print $1' '$2' '$4" might be put away at some point in a script and called later to output the contents of these fields. It appears that this is not so... -
I would like to use a stream of filenames from a pipe
I have a script which has got so far: file .* | awk -F: '/text/ {print $1}' as you can see, it hasn't got very far - but it does output a list of the filenames of files identified as text files (rather than directories, binaries or etc). The next thing I need Awk to do is open each of...
