How to break line after matching case but needs to go back a couple of characters
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I have the following sample:
1. TNT 00:00 2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34 3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29 4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16 5. The Equator 24:26 6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27 7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03 8. Four-Day Interval 37:42 9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29 10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01 11. Jetty 52:45 12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
Which I want to convert into:
1. TNT 00:00
2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34
3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29
4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16
5. The Equator 24:26
6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27
7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03
8. Four-Day Interval 37:42
9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29
10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01
11. Jetty 52:45
12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
The logical path I was following is that I know there will always be a "dot" (.) that comes with the number of the track and I can use it as a guideline for the breaks. The trouble is, it has to crawl back one or two characters in order to keep the number of the tracks.
text-processing awk sed text-formatting gawk
edited Dec 9 at 14:25
Jeff Schaller
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asked Dec 8 at 18:30
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I have the following sample:
1. TNT 00:00 2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34 3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29 4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16 5. The Equator 24:26 6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27 7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03 8. Four-Day Interval 37:42 9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29 10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01 11. Jetty 52:45 12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
Which I want to convert into:
1. TNT 00:00
2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34
3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29
4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16
5. The Equator 24:26
6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27
7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03
8. Four-Day Interval 37:42
9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29
10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01
11. Jetty 52:45
12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
The logical path I was following is that I know there will always be a "dot" (.) that comes with the number of the track and I can use it as a guideline for the breaks. The trouble is, it has to crawl back one or two characters in order to keep the number of the tracks.
text-processing awk sed text-formatting gawk
edited Dec 9 at 14:25
Jeff Schaller
38.7k1053125
asked Dec 8 at 18:30
fdonadon
112
add a comment |
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I have the following sample:
1. TNT 00:00 2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34 3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29 4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16 5. The Equator 24:26 6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27 7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03 8. Four-Day Interval 37:42 9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29 10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01 11. Jetty 52:45 12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
Which I want to convert into:
1. TNT 00:00
2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34
3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29
4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16
5. The Equator 24:26
6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27
7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03
8. Four-Day Interval 37:42
9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29
10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01
11. Jetty 52:45
12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
The logical path I was following is that I know there will always be a "dot" (.) that comes with the number of the track and I can use it as a guideline for the breaks. The trouble is, it has to crawl back one or two characters in order to keep the number of the tracks.
text-processing awk sed text-formatting gawk
edited Dec 9 at 14:25
Jeff Schaller
38.7k1053125
asked Dec 8 at 18:30
fdonadon
112
I have the following sample:
1. TNT 00:00 2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34 3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29 4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16 5. The Equator 24:26 6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27 7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03 8. Four-Day Interval 37:42 9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29 10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01 11. Jetty 52:45 12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
Which I want to convert into:
1. TNT 00:00
2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34
3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29
4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16
5. The Equator 24:26
6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27
7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03
8. Four-Day Interval 37:42
9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29
10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01
11. Jetty 52:45
12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
The logical path I was following is that I know there will always be a "dot" (.) that comes with the number of the track and I can use it as a guideline for the breaks. The trouble is, it has to crawl back one or two characters in order to keep the number of the tracks.
text-processing awk sed text-formatting gawk
text-processing awk sed text-formatting gawk
edited Dec 9 at 14:25
Jeff Schaller
38.7k1053125
asked Dec 8 at 18:30
fdonadon
112
edited Dec 9 at 14:25
Jeff Schaller
38.7k1053125
asked Dec 8 at 18:30
fdonadon
112
edited Dec 9 at 14:25
Jeff Schaller
38.7k1053125
edited Dec 9 at 14:25
Jeff Schaller
38.7k1053125
edited Dec 9 at 14:25
Jeff Schaller
38.7k1053125
38.7k1053125
asked Dec 8 at 18:30
fdonadon
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asked Dec 8 at 18:30
fdonadon
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asked Dec 8 at 18:30
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At least with GNU sed, you can insert a newline before all but the first matching sequence using a 2g modifier:
sed -E 's/[0-9]+./n&/2g' file
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
steeldriver
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TheNgmeans "replace globally but start at the Nth occurrence", right?
– terdon♦
Dec 8 at 18:43
@terdon yes that's right - or as the manual puts it, "ignore matches before the numberth, and then match and replace all matches from the numberth on"
– steeldriver
Dec 8 at 20:39
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Just capture the number and the dot and insert a newline before them:
$ perl -pe 's/s(d+.)/n$1/g' file
1. TNT 00:00
2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34
3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29
4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16
5. The Equator 24:26
6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27
7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03
8. Four-Day Interval 37:42
9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29
10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01
11. Jetty 52:45
12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
terdon♦
128k31249423
I'd just like to point out that both answers on this question came in: (a) 10.5 minutes after it was asked, and more amazingly, (b) 15 seconds apart. (#TooSlow, @terdon! 😉)
– FeRD
Dec 9 at 5:42
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At least with GNU sed, you can insert a newline before all but the first matching sequence using a 2g modifier:
sed -E 's/[0-9]+./n&/2g' file
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
steeldriver
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TheNgmeans "replace globally but start at the Nth occurrence", right?
– terdon♦
Dec 8 at 18:43
@terdon yes that's right - or as the manual puts it, "ignore matches before the numberth, and then match and replace all matches from the numberth on"
– steeldriver
Dec 8 at 20:39
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4
At least with GNU sed, you can insert a newline before all but the first matching sequence using a 2g modifier:
sed -E 's/[0-9]+./n&/2g' file
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
steeldriver
34.3k35083
1
TheNgmeans "replace globally but start at the Nth occurrence", right?
– terdon♦
Dec 8 at 18:43
@terdon yes that's right - or as the manual puts it, "ignore matches before the numberth, and then match and replace all matches from the numberth on"
– steeldriver
Dec 8 at 20:39
add a comment |
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At least with GNU sed, you can insert a newline before all but the first matching sequence using a 2g modifier:
sed -E 's/[0-9]+./n&/2g' file
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
steeldriver
34.3k35083
At least with GNU sed, you can insert a newline before all but the first matching sequence using a 2g modifier:
sed -E 's/[0-9]+./n&/2g' file
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
steeldriver
34.3k35083
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
steeldriver
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answered Dec 8 at 18:41
steeldriver
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answered Dec 8 at 18:41
steeldriver
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34.3k35083
1
TheNgmeans "replace globally but start at the Nth occurrence", right?
– terdon♦
Dec 8 at 18:43
@terdon yes that's right - or as the manual puts it, "ignore matches before the numberth, and then match and replace all matches from the numberth on"
– steeldriver
Dec 8 at 20:39
add a comment |
1
TheNgmeans "replace globally but start at the Nth occurrence", right?
– terdon♦
Dec 8 at 18:43
@terdon yes that's right - or as the manual puts it, "ignore matches before the numberth, and then match and replace all matches from the numberth on"
– steeldriver
Dec 8 at 20:39
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The
Ng means "replace globally but start at the Nth occurrence", right?– terdon♦
Dec 8 at 18:43
The
Ng means "replace globally but start at the Nth occurrence", right?– terdon♦
Dec 8 at 18:43
@terdon yes that's right - or as the manual puts it, "ignore matches before the numberth, and then match and replace all matches from the numberth on"
– steeldriver
Dec 8 at 20:39
@terdon yes that's right - or as the manual puts it, "ignore matches before the numberth, and then match and replace all matches from the numberth on"
– steeldriver
Dec 8 at 20:39
add a comment |
4
Just capture the number and the dot and insert a newline before them:
$ perl -pe 's/s(d+.)/n$1/g' file
1. TNT 00:00
2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34
3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29
4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16
5. The Equator 24:26
6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27
7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03
8. Four-Day Interval 37:42
9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29
10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01
11. Jetty 52:45
12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
terdon♦
128k31249423
I'd just like to point out that both answers on this question came in: (a) 10.5 minutes after it was asked, and more amazingly, (b) 15 seconds apart. (#TooSlow, @terdon! 😉)
– FeRD
Dec 9 at 5:42
add a comment |
4
Just capture the number and the dot and insert a newline before them:
$ perl -pe 's/s(d+.)/n$1/g' file
1. TNT 00:00
2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34
3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29
4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16
5. The Equator 24:26
6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27
7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03
8. Four-Day Interval 37:42
9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29
10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01
11. Jetty 52:45
12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
terdon♦
128k31249423
I'd just like to point out that both answers on this question came in: (a) 10.5 minutes after it was asked, and more amazingly, (b) 15 seconds apart. (#TooSlow, @terdon! 😉)
– FeRD
Dec 9 at 5:42
add a comment |
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4
4
Just capture the number and the dot and insert a newline before them:
$ perl -pe 's/s(d+.)/n$1/g' file
1. TNT 00:00
2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34
3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29
4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16
5. The Equator 24:26
6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27
7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03
8. Four-Day Interval 37:42
9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29
10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01
11. Jetty 52:45
12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
terdon♦
128k31249423
Just capture the number and the dot and insert a newline before them:
$ perl -pe 's/s(d+.)/n$1/g' file
1. TNT 00:00
2. Swing From The Gutters 7:34
3. Ten-Day Interval 13:29
4. I Set My Face To The Hillside 18:16
5. The Equator 24:26
6. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work 28:27
7. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls 32:03
8. Four-Day Interval 37:42
9. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And Men 42:29
10. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough 50:01
11. Jetty 52:45
12. Everglade 1:01:09 1:05:32
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
terdon♦
128k31249423
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
terdon♦
128k31249423
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
terdon♦
128k31249423
answered Dec 8 at 18:41
terdon♦
128k31249423
128k31249423
I'd just like to point out that both answers on this question came in: (a) 10.5 minutes after it was asked, and more amazingly, (b) 15 seconds apart. (#TooSlow, @terdon! 😉)
– FeRD
Dec 9 at 5:42
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I'd just like to point out that both answers on this question came in: (a) 10.5 minutes after it was asked, and more amazingly, (b) 15 seconds apart. (#TooSlow, @terdon! 😉)
– FeRD
Dec 9 at 5:42
I'd just like to point out that both answers on this question came in: (a) 10.5 minutes after it was asked, and more amazingly, (b) 15 seconds apart. (#TooSlow, @terdon! 😉)
– FeRD
Dec 9 at 5:42
I'd just like to point out that both answers on this question came in: (a) 10.5 minutes after it was asked, and more amazingly, (b) 15 seconds apart. (#TooSlow, @terdon! 😉)
– FeRD
Dec 9 at 5:42
add a comment |
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