Wow, Hans, you keep adding great recipes - it's hard to keep up with
you!
You asked for feedback and suggestions. Many years ago I wrote a
collection of power tools in C that I used in DOS, feeding the output
of one into the next using pipes. I still have a hard copy of the
manual. (I might have the code somewhere on an old computer...)
Here are a few of the tools that I wrote. I can send you more
information about any that interest you (or anyone else interested in
writing power tools). I was dealing with files, but most of these
tools could as easily apply to pages:
Calc - to do a calculation using numbers that are either on the
command line or in a file.
Decode - to display the ASCII values of graphic characters
Define - to remove strings from your file, and optionally, to replace
them with other strings.
Delq - to delete a set of files, asking user to say yes or no to each
Echox - to copy text multiple times
Ensure - to ensure that the last character of a file is the desired
one. Or to remove a character that is not wanted.
Findat - to extract or delete particular lines from a file.
Merge - to combine already sorted files into one single sorted file
Move - to move files by one command, instead of by copy and erase
Movedate - to rename files into subdirectories based on their creation
date
Reformat - to reformat text based on a template (this was a very
powerful tool, but hard to explain concisely)
Showerr - to show the errorlevel
Showstat - to show the status of a file or subdirectory, and to set
errorlevel to indicate the status
Siz - to subtotal file sizes
Space - to calculate disk space requirements for files
Split - to separate lines of a file into different result-files,
according to rules specified in a table (a very powerful tool)
Sum - to total up a column of numbers
Text - to convert a file into standard ASCII text.
Try - to make, remove, or change to a directory without showing an
error message when unsuccessful
Uniq - to remove lines from a file that are identical to the previous
line
Whatis - to document or to look up the meaning of a word
Width - to show the width of each line in file; also, to set errorlevel
Wordwrap - to fit text into a specified column width
Xtrbytes - to extract or delete sections of a file
Xtrchars - to extract or rearrange characters in text lines
Xtrline - to extract or delete one or more lines from a file
I hope this sparks some recipe ideas!
Randy
On Feb 4, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Hans wrote:
A collection of markup expressions which can be used to process
multiple pages.
See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PowerTools
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