From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 7 01:02:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F80B16A4DD for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:02:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0E743D58 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:02:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k7711gXR005277; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:01:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k7711Z3D005272; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:01:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:01:29 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Scott Sipe Message-ID: <20060807010129.GA5237@thought.org> References: <20060806221015.GA1039@thought.org> <44D66BD2.8050305@thingy.com> <20060806224732.GA1255@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Howto insert string. (Was: Re: [freebsd-questions] awk quickie.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:02:16 -0000 On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 07:18:07PM -0400, Scott Sipe wrote: > > On Aug 6, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Thanks much! I *did* learn that with just FS, no need "END". > > Maybe you can help me figure out what I'm trying to do because > > I'm wedged!! > > > > I've got 80 or so html/php files. Most do have > > > > > > > > but a whole slew do not/are missing the BG color code. > > So is there some scripto-magic way of finding out which fles are > > missing the above string? I know how, using an ed/ex script to > > insert this string. > > > > My hacker brain seems to be on strike! > > > > gary > > Not 100% sure this is what you're wanting, but you can just do > something like: > > grep "myregex" * | awk -F ':' '{print $1}' > > This will print out the first column (ie, whatever comes before the > first colon). > > if the options are either "" or "" I > guess you could do something like: > > grep " > to get the files that have a body line sans BGCOLOR (you might need > to account for case in the tags also) > > Scott Thanks, Scott. I didn't know that "-F 'char' would reset the field separator. I'll save this to my AWK howto. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix