Let's talk Unix for a second

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:48 pm

I have some transcripts coming back from this thing I am working on. I'd like to convert them to Hugo script files.

What would be the syntax of a good script that would search a text file, check the beginning of each line for the ">" character being first and then send the appropriate lines to a second text file?

I am installing Cygwin for this. Dev machine indeed!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:08 pm

Grep works!

grep.exe "^>" oldfile.txt > newfile.txt

I have WINDOWS GREP.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:24 pm

See, you figured it out yourself, you didn't need our help!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:02 pm

I'm pretty talented that way. Man, I didn't even have to bring up an AIM client and find YOU or anything.

Whew!

Hey, you got 600 words or so on Spy Hunter in ya, Ben?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:11 pm

The original game? Yes. Yes I do. Not just this second, though.