[Sussex] Ping

[Jeffrey Best]

I was wondering whether a hands-on, text file manipulation
workshop/competition, featuring awk/sed/grep/cut/paste/sort/uniq and
related applications might be useful. I have been having to refresh my
memory on some useful techniques involving these - including piping
through "cat -v" to turn pesky carriage returns into something I can
target when using the above from Cygwin. Perhaps there are others who
would like a refresher or who can bring some favoured one-liners to the
party?

I could bring along some reasonably complex, multi-record type text
files and suggest interesting information it would be useful to extract,
and the audience can compete to see who has the most elegant approach to
finding and extracting said information from a set of files. I could
even supply prizes for the best solutions, as voted by the audience.

Would this fill one of your slots?

Regards,

Jeff

On 18/03/2019 17:01, Paul Tansom via Sussex wrote:
> A little quieter than usual this month for one of possibly many reasons. I
> believe there were train issues, some form of sports on and of course the
> Ubuntu Podcast Get Together - nothing at all to do with the late notification
> of course, or my ongoing battle to find speakers :-)
>
> ** Jeffrey Best via Sussex <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk> [2019-03-15 17:48]:
>> I get your notifications via both the Sussex and Portsmouth LUG lists.
>>
>> I have been fighting off a bug, so not sure if I will be well enough to
>> attend, this Saturday. I hope all goes well.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On 14/03/2019 23:38, Paul Tansom via Sussex wrote:
>>> Just checked my mail archives and found that there hasn't been an email to this
>>> list bar my PLUG announcements since 24th May 2017.
>>>
>>> Are they of interest to anyone? We do meet only a mile or so from the Sussex
>>> border and do get attendees from Sussex, but I'm not sure which list they pick
>>> up the notifications from (I'll try to remember to ask).
>>>
>>> Is there anyone else still here?
>>>
>> -- 
>> Sussex mailing list
>> Sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> E-mail Address: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> Sussex LUG Website: http://www.sussex.lug.org.uk/
>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sussex
> ** end quote [Jeffrey Best via Sussex]
>