From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 6 23:23:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6198106566C for ; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:23:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 697018FC0A for ; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:23:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n86NMIL3072020; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:22:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:23:01 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Mark Willson Message-ID: <20090906232300.GA11209@thought.org> References: <20090906003651.GA7388@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines? 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: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:23:06 -0000 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 > ><>. 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php