Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:23:01 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Mark Willson <cdr.nil@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines? Message-ID: <20090906232300.GA11209@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <h811h5$p11$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20090906003651.GA7388@thought.org> <h811h5$p11$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 08:11:48PM +0100, Mark Willson wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> >in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several
> >newlines to indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or
> ><<whatever>>. i have lost these vertical spacing in all but my
> >original draft. can i use grep somehow to find these extra newlines?
> >
> >
> >if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?!
> >
> >tia,
> >
> >gary
> >
> >
> >
> Gary,
>
> If I understand your question correctly (by no means certain), the
> following may help. This is an awk script, which will print out the
> lines in the source file at which it finds more than three consecutive
> empty lines.
>
> BEGIN {
> ncnt = 0
> }
> /^ *$/ {
> ncnt++;
> if (ncnt > 3)
> {print "Emphasis at: " NR;
> ncnt = 0;}
> next;
> }
> {ncnt = 0;}
>
> You can invoke this (assuming the awk source in is a file called
> "em.awk" and your original manuscript is in a file called "manuscript") by:
>
> $ awk -f em.awk manuscript
>
> -mark
Yes, this works just fine. I findthat there are about 130 places that I need to
track... --yeah, i did over-do it in the time-breaks in my story.
Is there a way of printing the string/line in the `manuscript' file along with the line
number? I'm well into a copyedit of the manuscript and would rather not start over!
thanks for this.
gary
>
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