[Sussex] Ping

[Paul Feakins]

That actually does sound like a lot of fun to me!

Kind regards,
Paul Feakins

On 18/03/2019 22:22, Jeffrey Best via Sussex wrote:
> 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?
>>>>
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>> ** end quote [Jeffrey Best via Sussex]
>>