This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
News grepping
Article: 7835 of alt.hackers From: fanf2@thor.cam.ac.uk (Tony Finch) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: News grepping Date: 18 May 1995 16:24:02 GMT Organization: Trinity College, University of Cambridge Lines: 30 Approved: Kibo (but is it ALLOWED?) Message-ID: 3pfsb2$365@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk Status: RO
Can anyone point me towards a Unix tool that will reformat text into
one sentence per line?
ObHack:
newnews | fgrep From | awk -f reformat.awk $1 | sort | uniq -c +24 | sort -n -r
newnews prints the headers from unread articles
---- reformat.awk
{ name = ""; email = ""
for(a = 2; a < 10; ++a)
if($a ~ /@/) email = $a;
else if(length($a)) name = name " " $a;
flag = 1; while(flag) {
if(name ~ /^ /) name = substr(name, 2, length(name)-1);
else if(name ~ /^\(.*\)$/) name = substr(name, 2, length(name)-2);
else if(name ~ /^".*"$/) name = substr(name, 2, length(name)-2);
else flag = 0;
}
if(email ~ /^<.*>$/) email = substr(email, 2, length(email)-2);
if(length(email)) printf("%-24s %s\n", name, email);
}
----
Tony.
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