On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 15:27 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Enrico Scholz wrote:
> >>>>> But python or other bloaty scripting languages are not a solution
> >>>>> and completely unacceptable at this place.
> >>>> "Bloaty" is something that could be solved, don't you think?
> >>> Not with python or perl.
> >> I've shown you the numbers. Why you still insist on it being bloated
> >
> > Resulting scripts will be much longer. E.g. how much lines of python
> > code are required for
> >
> > | sed '/^foo/s!/bin!/opt!' file | tac
>
> Looks like one line in python to me if you write a sed and tac replacement into
> your python library. (e.g. thats not about bash vs python at all...)
If I'm not to try to emulate the single commands, but look at the whole
job which I understand as "read file, replace first occurrence of '/bin'
with '/opt' in lines beginning with 'foo', then put out the lines in
reversed order" it could be along this (and wouldn't use any external
module or program):
print '\n'.join (reversed (map (lambda line: line[:3] == "foo" and line.replace ('/bin', '/opt', 1) or line, ''.join (open ('file').readlines ()).split ('\n'))))
To make this more readable, I'd split this up and comment it:
--- 8< ---
# read the file and split it at '\n'
lines = ''.join (open ('file').readlines ()).split ('\n')
for i in range (len (lines)):
if line[:3] == 'foo':
# replace first occurrence of /bin with /opt
lines[i] = lines[i].replace ('/bin', '/opt', 1)
print '\n'.join (reversed (lines))
--- >8 ---
Now the original sed can surely be changed that it would take more than
one line to emulate the line's function, but then I would feel
comfortable using (shipped) modules like "re" to achieve the same effect
as the shell code uses sed and tac.
Nils
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