Manipulate "My Clippings" through command line

[Aeris]

I've found this nice script to export from a file all the text between two word/string:

sed '/WORD1 a /!d;s//&\n/;s/.*\n//;:a;/WORD2/bb;$!{n;ba};:b;s//\n&/;P;D' inputfile.txt > output.txt

where WORD1 and WORD2 are these words . It runs beautifully on linux, but if i try to execute it on kindle it gives me this error:

sed: can't find label for jump to 'a}'

I don't know how to fix it also because I've no idea what does all these paramaeters do in sed command (I know how it works only for simple tasks).

Does anybody know why on kindle it doesn't works as it does on linux? Or another script to do the same task? I've searched a lot through sed / awk forums but can't find nothing other than this...

[knc1]

It is Busybox sed

try:

busybox sed '/WORD1 a /!d;s//&\n/;s/.*\n//;:a;/WORD2/bb;$!{n;ba};:b;s//\n&/;P;D' inputfile.txt > output.txt

Some of the people here set up a chroot, that has **only** the busybox utilities in it.
The same **version** of busybox as used on the <pick model here> kindle.

[Aeris]

Same error

[twobob]

can provide full sed. if required.

Usage: /bin/sed [OPTION]... {script-only-if-no-other-script} [input-file]...

-n, --quiet, --silent
suppress automatic printing of pattern space
-e script, --expression=script
add the script to the commands to be executed
-f script-file, --file=script-file
add the contents of script-file to the commands to be executed
--follow-symlinks
follow symlinks when processing in place
-i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX]
edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied)
-l N, --line-length=N
specify the desired line-wrap length for the `l' command
--posix
disable all GNU extensions.
-r, --regexp-extended
use extended regular expressions in the script.
-s, --separate
consider files as separate rather than as a single continuous
long stream.
-u, --unbuffered
load minimal amounts of data from the input files and flush
the output buffers more often
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit

If no -e, --expression, -f, or --file option is given, then the first
non-option argument is taken as the sed script to interpret. All
remaining arguments are names of input files; if no input files are
specified, then the standard input is read.

GNU sed home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/>.
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.

[Aeris]

It seems to be a condensed script, not a simple sed command.. dunno if the issue depends on sed or on the rest of the syntax mmh... too condensed to be deciphered, for me at least xD

[twobob]

or a newer busybox might do the trick I suppose

[Aeris]

It's incredible, on the net you can't find any command to accomplish this simple task neither in awk, sed or grep, other than this one

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Aeris

It seems to be a condensed script, not a simple sed command.. dunno if the issue depends on sed or on the rest of the syntax mmh... too condensed to be deciphered, for me at least xD

It IS a sed script (sed is a (multi-line) programing language), not just a regular expression.

start by editing that monster into multiple lines, a program statement per line.

[Aeris]

Like this?:

/WORD1 a /!d;
s//&\n/;
s/.*\n//;
:a;
/WORD2/bb;
$!{n;
ba};
:b;
s//\n&/;
P;
D

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Aeris

Like this?:

/WORD1 a /!d;
s//&\n/;
s/.*\n//;
:a;
/WORD2/bb;
$!{n;
ba};
:b;
s//\n&/;
P;
D

Right!
then just look each of them up, maybe add comments

No, I am not being difficult - I would have to do the same.

[twobob]

[root@kindle root]# /mnt/us/extensions/sed/usr/bin/sed \
'/WORD1 a /!d;s//&\n/;s/.*\n//;:a;/WORD2/bb;$!{n;ba};:b;s//\n&/;P;D' \
/mnt/us/documents/galc.txt > \
/mnt/us/documents/galc-sed.txt


works perfectly.

[Aeris]

I solved running this command:

sed 's/\(WORD1\|WORD2\)/\n&\n/g' "/mnt/us/documents/My Clippings.txt" | awk  '/WORD2/{p=0;printf s;s=""}p{s=s$0"\n"};/WORD1/{p=1}' > "/mnt/us/documents/output.txt"

[twobob]

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=224963

[Aeris]

Twobob: so it was a busybox sed issue?

[ixtab]

Originally Posted by Aeris

Twobob: so it was a busybox sed issue?

Yes. Busybox is a single "all-in-one executable" which implements many of the standard GNU commands.* But for some, it only supports a limited subset of the full-blown executable's functionality.

http://www.busybox.net/about.html

(*) You will find that on most embedded devices, all these executables are either symlinked or hardlinked to the (single) busybox executable. IIRC, the Kindle uses hard links.