Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:06:02 -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: <20090907010602.GA11657@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090906232300.GA11209@thought.org> References: <20090906003651.GA7388@thought.org> <h811h5$p11$1@ger.gmane.org> <20090906232300.GA11209@thought.org>
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On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 04:23:01PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 08:11:48PM +0100, Mark Willson wrote:
> > Gary Kline wrote:
> > >in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several
> > >newlines to indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or
> > ><<whatever>>. i have lost these vertical spacing in all but my
> > >original draft. can i use grep somehow to find these extra newlines?
> > >
> > >
> > >if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?!
> > >
> > >tia,
> > >
> > >gary
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Gary,
> >
> > If I understand your question correctly (by no means certain), the
> > following may help. This is an awk script, which will print out the
> > lines in the source file at which it finds more than three consecutive
> > empty lines.
> >
> > BEGIN {
> > ncnt = 0
> > }
> > /^ *$/ {
> > 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.
>
:wq
Sorry:: sounds a bit moronic:: not print the blank line/newline! but print the
NR-1-th line.
>
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