Ok, I'm a moron for not reading the original post before answering. Never mind.
uriel On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Uriel <urie...@gmail.com> wrote: > awk '{n=n+NF} n>1000 {print ":"NR; exit}' > > That will print something you can plumb and go to the line you want. > > Should be obvious enough how to generalize into a reusable script. > > (Typed from memory and not tested.) > > uriel > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:40 PM, roger peppe <rogpe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2009/3/3 Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.syk...@gmail.com>: >>>> I would do it with awk myself, Much depends on what you want to >>>> do to the 1000'th word on the line. >>> >>> Say I really want to get there, so that I can manually edit the place. >> >> if i really had to do this (as a one-off), i'd probably do it in a >> few stages: >> >> copy & paste the line to a New blank window. >> in the new window: >> Edit ,x/[ ]+/a/\n/ >> :1000 >> >> edit as desired >> Edit ,x/\n/d >> >> copy and paste back to the original window. >> >> if you were going to do this a lot, you could easily make a little >> script to tell you the offset of the 1000th word. >> >> e.g. >> sed 's/[ \t]+/&\n/' | sed 1000q | tr -d '\012' | wc -c >> >> actually that doesn't work 'cos sed has line length issues. >> so i'd probably do it in C - the program would take the line >> as stdin and could print out address >> of the word in acme-friendly notation, e.g. :-++#8499;+#6 >> >> it'd only be a few minutes to write. >> >> another option would be to write a little script that used the >> addr file repeatedly to find the nth match of a regexp. >> >> >