Questions tagged [text-formatting]
Questions about using command-line utilities such as awk, sed, perl, pr, etc. to format text files. For printf format strings, use the [printf] tag. For date format strings, [date]. See also the [text-processing] tag.
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is a cell boldface
I'm looking for a function to determine if a cell is formatted bold. I'm using LibreOffice Calc, and for ease of use, I have a range of items to buy and their prices. I want to have a simple method of ...
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Cannot open an .mbox file with neomutt (although it works with mutt)
Cannot open an .mbox file with mutt
I want to open a 10GB .mbox file that I downloaded from my gmail account. When I use the command
neomutt -f 10GB_mboxfile.mbox
neomutt takes 10-20 seconds to open ...
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Different format in .mbox and email saved locally with mutt: convert split .mbox file into the same format as mutt?
I am trying to move to mutt for mail client and am trying to have email localy. I have 2 sources of saved email:
the first one was obtained from the .mbox file form google: I wrote a script which ...
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How do I change the date/time format in syslog-ng from `mmm [d]d hh:mm:ss` to `yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss`?
I noticed that the default datetime format for logs in /var/log/messages is mmm [d]d hh:mm:ss, for example:
Jan 4 03:46:50 1.2.3.4 ntpclient[6952]: Failed resolving address to hostname pool.ntp.org: ...
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Text processing grep and awk together on live script not working
I am using ssh to login to a remote server (Ubuntu), and then issue a command which outputs text/value each sec (live script).
In the live output, I want to filter out the lines containing '...
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process a text file to modify a column value based on maximum value from another column
I have a file that i am looking to modify. There are 100's of files having the same issue.
the input file is below
sample1 100A total 1 1000
sample2 100A total 1 5584
sample3 100A ...
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Reformat text to exact width [duplicate]
On Ubuntu, how to reformat text to fit width (except final line), adding spaces where necessary? The closest I can get is with fmt --width=64, but this does not add the spaces between words.
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How do I format the output of cut to the following format? [duplicate]
last part of the command:
| cut -d' ' -f3
output:
4
10
required format:
4,10
I'm guessing echo (and sort?) is to be used in some way, but I can't quite place my finger on it.
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text formatter that supports bullets
I am looking for a formatter to use with my git commits. par pretty much does what I want, with the (important) limitation that I can't get it to properly format bullet lists, which are pretty common ...
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Find and replace in CudaText editor
So I have dump from U-boot and I need to replace specific string in CudaText editor.
Here is mine text
e101b1e0: 30ef27d8 e792f415 9beea618 5c601de4 .'.0..........`\
e101b1f0: aeaf9d25 e1dd63e9 ...
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Template for formatting output as a dynamic table in bash
I have a created a simple script which is using the ps aux command to give information for a process entered by a user, and presents the output in a table like format (something like the mysql shell ...
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Generate upper-case in a udev rule?
I have a use case with cross-platform context which makes me want to generate symlinks under a /dev/disk/by-X directory that have an uppercase version of data returned by blkid.
Is there a built-in ...
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Sed - replace a string with a character of another line
I am trying to write a script to reformat some text.
pages:
page1:
gui-rows: 6
items:
'6':
material: CAT_SPAWN_EGG
buy: 999999999
sell: -1
'7':
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How can I reformat blocks of data until the end of the file is reached?
I have a file that looks like this:
# Time-averaged data for fix avetimeall
# TimeStep Number-of-rows
# Row c_gyrationchunkall
1000 3
1 2.09024e-14
2 4.88628
3 5.69321
2000 3
1 2.10518e-14
2 8.33702
3 ...
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How to preprocess output of any CLI Tool in realtime?
For context, what I am trying to do is add a preprocessor to a REPL, more specifically, nix repl. Although this would probably apply to any other REPL like application.
The reason for it is that I ...
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