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Originally Posted by valkyriesound
I'm new... what's *nix and std text pattern tools? Links?
Yeah... anyone know a quick way to get rid of those extra blank spaces it adds?
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Again, using sed:
C:\> sed "/([0-9][0-9]* of [0-9][0-9]*)/d" original.rtf > modified.rtf
That command deletes the entire line containing those characters. Beware: sed operates on the file read as text, not as formatted in a wordprocessor, so you should open the file with notepad (or another text editor without rtf support) to see if those (nn of mm) are alone in a line.
More info on what can be done with sed:
http://www.student.northpark.edu/pem...d/sed1line.txt
The things to search are detailed as "regular expressions", that is a special syntax to specify patterns of text (optionally with subsitutions). There are plenty of tutorials for regular expressions, for example:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/doc...gex-intro.html
And a reference page for advanced users:
http://anaturb.net/sed.htm