Re: vi to do Shell Script
Re: vi to do Shell Script
- Subject: Re: vi to do Shell Script
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:02:47 +0100
Hello,
That would be a single line with Satimage osax: change " +" into tab in alias "path:to:the:original:text:file" with regexp.
I wouldn't change " *" because the empty string would match that pattern.
Emmanuel
On Jan 4, 2012, at 11:00 PM, KOENIG Yvan wrote:
> Hello
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> I want to replace every chunks of space characters embedded in a text file by a single TAB one.
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> I was said tha the command vi :
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> :%s/ */ctrl-i/g
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> is able to do the trick.
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> Alas, I have no idea of the way I may trigger it with a do Shell Script command.
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> The scheme would be :
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> set the_path to path:to:the:original:text:file
> set the_path_Unix to posix path of the_path
> set the_path_qUnix to quoted form of the_path_Unix
> set edited_text to do Shel Script apply_vi_cmd to the_path_qUnix
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> I hope that somebody will be able to give the correct incantation.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> I hope that my question is clear enough because for the old frenchy, it's time to switch off.
>
> Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 4 janvier 2012 23:00:37
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