Sed pattern help - not FreeBSD related

[Dr. Nikolaus Klepp]

Anno domini 2020 Tue, 25 Aug 18:05:45 -0500
 Tim Daneliuk scripsit:
> On 8/25/20 5:44 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> > On 8/25/20 4:02 PM, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> >> Excuses, the result should look like: (forgot the DC)
> >>
> >>> LOOP:   DC LOOP+2
> >>> DO:	      DC DO+2
> >>> J:	     DC J+2
> >>> ENCL:	DC ENCL+2  PDP-11 VERSION OF ENCLOSE
> >>> KEY	     DC KEY+2
> >>> EMIT	DC EMIT+2
> >>> QTERM	DC QTERM+2
> > 
> > Here is a  one-liner using sed and awk.  It suffers from two deficiencies:
> > 
> > - It does not handle arbitrarily long comments
> > - It's really ugly
> > 
> >    sed s/':'//g < myfile | awk '{print $1":", $2, $1"+2", $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9. $10}'
> > 
> 
> 
> Oops, not quite right because it inserts colons blindly in the first field -
> which appears not what you want.  More correct implementation in Python:
> 
> !/usr/bin/env python
> 
> import sys
> 
> for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
> 
>     line = line.strip().split()
>     label = line[0]
>     comment = " ".join(line[3:])
>     print("%s    DC   %s+2    %s" %(label, label.replace(':', ''), comment))
> 
> 
> 


sed 's#^\([^ \t]*\)\([^*]*\)[*]#\1\2\1#' <el2


nik



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