On Jul 3, 2022, at 3:17 PM, Rod Buchanan wrote:
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> Don't enter the '$'. I was showing the shell prompt (in my case, the bash
> shell). I probably should've left that out.
No problem of course -- now it works great. (In case it matters, I am using
Monterey, so the default is zsh.)
Thank you
On Jul 3, 2022, at 1:26 PM, David Kelly wrote:
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> As I originally stated, you now invoke the script file with
> "awk -f script.awk " with a trailing space then drag your input file to the
> command line to finish.
>
> -f tells awk to get its commands from the specified file rather than the
>
On Jul 3, 2022, at 12:54 PM, Christopher Waterman wrote:
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> It seems like you are missing some fundamentals when dealing with the command
> line and paths and such.
Yes, missing almost all the fundamentals (except for knowing how to create a
POSIX style path), so thank you for the very clear
On Jul 3, 2022, at 10:07 AM, Rod Buchanan wrote:
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> Another command-line option would be to use cut. Assuming the fields are
> separated by a space:
>
> $ cut -d ' ' -f1 source_file.txt > output_file_1.txt
> $ cut -d ' ' -f2 source_file.txt > output_file_1.txt
>
> Where:
>
>
On Jul 3, 2022, at 7:26 AM, David Kelly wrote:
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> Create an awk script file. Lets call it "script.awk" that looks like this:
>
> {
> print $1 >> "col-1.txt"
> print $2 >> "col-2.txt"
> }
Is creating an awk script file different from entering the above sc
On Jul 3, 2022, at 12:07 AM, Chris wrote:
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>
>> On Jul 2, 2022, at 10:55 PM, David Brostoff wrote:
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>> }’ input.txt/Users/davidbrostoff/Desktop/Sample2010-2011.txt
>
> You need to replace ‘input.txt’ with the file you are dragging in
> ‘/Users/davidbro
On Jul 2, 2022, at 9:29 PM, David Kelly wrote:
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> Type the command line and rather than type the input file name just drag the
> file to the command line. Finder/Terminal will write the file's full path on
> the command line.
P.S. When I said the following line is repeated three times, I now
On Jul 2, 2022, at 9:29 PM, David Kelly wrote:
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> Type the command line and rather than type the input file name just drag the
> file to the command line. Finder/Terminal will write the file's full path on
> the command line.
Thanks for the tip, but I must be doing something wrong.
First I
On Jun 29, 2022, at 8:49 PM, Christopher Waterman wrote:
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> It breaks down like this:
>
> awk = The command; it takes two parameters. Param 1: The script. Param 2: A
> Path to the source file.
Again sorry for the beginner question, but what format should I use for the
path if, for example, t
On Jun 30, 2022, at 5:47 AM, John E. Connerat wrote:
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> Although this has been solved in numerous ways, there is one more solution
> that might work if all the data are formatted with exactly three digits
> followed by a space and two digits. It's something I use all the time with
> fixed-wid
On Jun 30, 2022, at 2:05 AM, Kaveh wrote:
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> David, Extract is a great feature. Simple but clever. I use it all the time
> for quickly analysing text I have scraped for example...
Yes -- for the past couple of years I have only been using BBEdit in a very
limited way and this was the first ti
On Jun 29, 2022, at 8:52 PM, Christopher Waterman wrote:
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> Well… No, no more steps.
Mystery solved:
I somehow had the Regex command highlighted in the Find box. As soon as I
clicked elsewhere to dismiss the highlighting, the extracted text appeared in
the new document.
Thanks again -- I re
On Jun 29, 2022, at 8:52 PM, Christopher Waterman wrote:
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> Well… No, no more steps.
Is it because I am using BBEdit in free mode?
David
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On Jun 29, 2022, at 8:49 PM, Christopher Waterman wrote:
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> Does that help?
Yes, now I get it -- thank you.
David
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On Jun 29, 2022, at 7:43 PM, David Kelly wrote:
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> In terminal.app it would be something like this:
>
> awk ‘{ print $1 >> “col-1.txt”
> print $2 >> “col-2.txt” }’ input.txt
As I mentioned, I am completely ignorant of awk, so sorry for the basic
question, but how do I get Terminal to point t
On Jun 29, 2022, at 7:58 PM, Christopher Waterman wrote:
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> It is pretty easy to do this with two finds with extract.
> Extract opens the matches in a new document.
>
> Find: ^\d{3}
> Then hit extract
>
> Find: \b\d{2}\b
> Then hit extract again
Thank you for the easy-to-follow instructions.
On Jun 29, 2022, at 7:43 PM, David Kelly wrote:
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> In terminal.app it would be something like this:
>
> awk ‘{ print $1 >> “col-1.txt”
> print $2 >> “col-2.txt” }’ input.txt
Thank you -- I haven't used awk before though so I will have to get up to
speed. (I asked about GREP only because I h
I have a list of numbers in this format:
123 56
789 01
How can I create two separate documents with 123 and 789 in one and 56 and 01
in the other?
David
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On Oct 23, 2018, at 3:39 PM, David Brostoff wrote:
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> I am very satisfied with the other solution you provided but I also have
> LaunchBar and would like to understand how to use it for this.
>
> Could you explain a little more?
Please ignore my question -- I now see how to u
On Oct 23, 2018, at 5:16 AM, Roland Küffner wrote:
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> If you find yourself throwing around files between different applications
> very often, I'd highly recommend LaunchBar
> (https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index-de.html). It provides
> something like piping in the terminal, only for
On Oct 22, 2018, at 5:34 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary
wrote:
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> I have the same issue that I solved with a trivial bit of AppleScript
Thank you for this suggestion and for the detailed instructions.
I already solved this by using a keyboard shortcut with the "Open File in
BBEdit" service, as R
On Oct 22, 2018, at 2:52 PM, David Brostoff wrote:
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> In Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > Open File in BBEdit (macOS 10.13.6), the
> box for that item was already checked and I created the shortcut
> Command-Option-O.
>
> When I highlight an .htm file and us
On Oct 22, 2018, at 2:33 PM, Roland Küffner wrote:
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> if I’am not mistaken, BBEdit comes with a system wide Service called „Open
> File in BBEdit“ (at least, I have it in my service collection).
>
> So, open macOS’ system preferences, goto Keyboard > Shortcuts. Find it in the
> list and give
Usually I want .html files to open in a web browser, but often I want them to
open in BBEdit.
Dragging files to the BBEdit icon in the Dock or using File > Open can get
tedious though.
Is there a way to make this easier, preferably via a keyboard shortcut?
Thank you,
David
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On Feb 3, 2018, at 1:24 PM, Bucky Junior wrote:
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> Look in Preferences —>Completion —>Insert matching delimiters while typing.
>
> Selected, it will double the double quotes, single quotes, parentheses,
> square brackets, curly brackets, and who knows what else. Oh, Barebones knows.
>
> My pr
With BBEdit 12.0.2 (MacBook Pro 2017 15-inch, macOS 10.13.2, ABC - Extended
keyboard in System Preferences), whenever I type a double quotation mark, two
sets of double quotation marks are displayed.
In other words, when I type ", the result is "", with the cursor placed between
the two quotati
On Aug 19, 2017, at 1:38 PM, F. Alfredo Rego wrote:
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> Perhaps Patrick and Rich might be inclined to consider placing
> a “swap panes” button somewhere in the differences window itself
> (if this is even feasible, and if this won’t break anything).
I second the motion -- I have been wanting t
> On Jul 26, 2017, at 4:12 PM, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote:
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> If you open the Find Differences window you can drag two documents from the
> Finder into the rounded rectangle targets on the right.
When I try that the .docx files are displayed as gibberish. (Maybe they have to
be in .txt or .rtf f
On May 14, 2014, at 08:45 , Ken G. Brown wrote:
> Quite often when shutting down BBEdit, it will ask 'Do you want to save the
> changes?' for some file or other.
>
> By then I have forgotten what changed, maybe just an accidental typo, so it
> would be nice to be able to ask for the difference
At 8:59 PM -0400 5/3/11, Rich Siegel wrote:
"Preview in BBEdit" (the live preview that updates as you edit) uses
the same rendering engine as Safari, Google Chrome, and several
other browsers built using "WebKit". So naturally the preview will
resemble the presentation offered by those browser
At 9:13 PM -0700 5/3/11, Steve Piercy wrote:
It looks like this, Preview on left, code on right.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/RjcaiknqS4HXHZgq4KZWUAiZJnoVlq9pf-xqRyyDkso?feat=directlink
Thanks--that is what I was looking for.
David
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At 11:04 AM +1000 5/4/11, Alex Satrapa wrote:
On 04/05/2011, at 10:38 AM, Robert Huttinger wrote:
Whatever you view in is only as accurate as what your testing for.
If people will be viewing your site in BBEdit then by all means.
But you should be using (IMO) as a quick reference wysiwyg and
At 3:09 PM -0700 5/3/11, Steve Piercy wrote:
Also BBEdit is not a WYSIWYG editor, like Adobe Dreamweaver or the
open source editors KompoZer or SeaMonkey. A WYSIWYG editor simulates
what the web browser displays to a fair degree, although not exactly.
Any of these may be more suitable to your us
At 1:23 PM -0700 5/3/11, Steve Piercy wrote:
What is "low-level"?
Preview may or may not be helpful in this situation. If you work in a
web framework or use virtual URLs or edit an included file, then
Preview does not help much. But if you edit a single HTML file and
Preview it, Preview will upd
I have been happily using TextWrangler for a few years now. Most of
what I do is fairly low-level work on HTML files that someone else has
created.
I recently tried the BBEdit free trial but didn't really see anything
that I needed. Today, though, someone mentioned the preview feature,
which might
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