On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 01:40 -0400, Parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Zhang Weiwu thusly... > > > > Dear list. I could not find a mailing list about 'sed' (there is > > an very inactive Yahoo Group though) so I wish to try some luck > > here. > > Try, comp.unix.misc newsgroup. > > > > I've got a situation that looks like require using variable and > > not possible to process with sed. But I am not sure. Can someone > > suggest me if this task is out of scope of sed? > > Try some variation of what Garret suggested if sed is the > requirement and skip rest of the message.
Thank you very much for all of you providing insights. I have not yet tried all possibilities in sed but I have just discovered it's relatively easy to handle this task in awk with this script: /^$/ { print "createTimestamp:", timeStamp; timeStamp = ""; } /^ahkCreateTimeStamp:/ { timeStamp = $2;} /^createTimestamp:/ { if (timeStamp == "") timeStamp = $2; } $0 !~ /^ahkCreateTimeStamp:/ && $0 !~ /^createTimestamp:/ { print; } _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"