You know
what not to do, but what's she all about?
Here's what my iTunes has to say about her:
and then did some command-line stuff to get the first column:$ cat > foo
He's a Whore 1 of 1 3 of 10 2:42 Cheap Trick Cheap Trick 1977 7 10/24/03 4:55 PM
He's Misstra Know It All 1 of 1 9 of 9 5:35 Stevie Wonder Innervisions 1973 4 6/17/03 3:24 PM
He Stopped Loving Her Today 1 of 1 1 of 14 3:19 George Jones I Am What I Am 1980 7 7/15/03 5:15 PM
He Gives Us All His Love 1 of 1 3 of 12 1:56 Randy Newman Sail Away 1972 5 8/12/03 11:59 AM
He'll Be A Friend 1 of 1 11 of 13 2:00 Johnny Cash Hymns By Johnny Cash 1958 5 10/2/03 2:19 PM
He Turned The Water Into Wine 1 of 1 15 of 18 4:01 Johnny Cash At San Quentin (The Complete 1969 Concert) 2000 6 6/2/03 9:00 AM
He'll Have To Go 1 of 2 14 of 15 4:33 Elvis Presley The Elvis Presley Collection - Country 1998
He Turned The Water Into Wine 1 of 1 22 of 26 3:16 Johnny Cash At Madison Square Garden 2002 1 8/27/03 3:36 PM
He's Got A Secret 1 of 1 9 of 11 2:42 Bangles All Over The Place 1984
$ perl -nal -F'\t' -e'print "<LI>$F[0]"' -l foo | sort -f
perl--
Dom2 on 2003-10-28T20:55:24
I don't like using perl when there are easier ways.:-) $ cut -f1 foo | sed 's/^/<li>/' | sort -f-Dom
It's all about the tools....
petdance on 2003-10-28T21:24:36
Yeah, but 1) I don't know sed, and 2) I do know Perl very well. I realize learning sed isn't a very long trip from Perl, but it's all about the tools you have handy...Re:It's all about the tools....
Dom2 on 2003-10-28T21:32:12
There's not much to learn about sed. Just "s/foo/bar/g" just like perl. cut is the more interesting (and IMHO) underused tool.OTOH, you know you're doing too much shell scripting when you find regular uses for join(1).
:-) -Dom
Re:It's all about the tools....
ziggy on 2003-10-30T16:07:16
There's a lot more to sed than "s/foo/bar/g". I'm forever doing ranges like 1,/--8 or whatnot.Arguing over sed vs. perl is like arguing over which manufacturer produces the definitive Swiss Army Knife. Sure there are differences, and either one will let you get your job done pretty damn quickly. In situations like this, the differences are moot.
Just so long as you don't break down and write a Java program to do the same thing.
;-)
Re:Cheap Trick?
petdance on 2003-10-28T22:42:27
oooh, good idea. I'll need to bring my copy of the Sex, America, Cheap Trick box set in and rip it.The iTunes here at work is just what I've ripped from my collection at home...
