Subj : Re: -Unpublished- with speed > 300
To   : Nigel Reed
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sat Dec 09 2023 16:05:25

Hi Nigel,

On 2023-12-09 08:53:10, you wrote to me:

 >> This seems unnecessarily complex, and it requires the dos2unix step,
 >> which requires an extra edit because my dos2unix at first regards the
 >> file as a binary file because of the ^Z at the end, and refuses to
 >> convert it.

 NR> That's what the force option is for :)

Of course, but you don't need to use dos2unix at all.

 >> And for me it gives 82. But that is because it also counts these lines
 >> in the Z2 version of the nodelist:
 >>
 >> ;S    The use of all zero telephone numbers instead of "-Unpublished-"
 >> for ;S    MakeNl that allows the use of "-Unpublished-" without Pvt for
 >> IP only

 NR> So add |grep -v ^;

Making it even more "complex"! ;)

 NR> There's nothing really complex about it. You find all the lines with
 NR> unpublished, then you cut off the first couple of fields that may have a
 NR> 300 in the network or node number, then you remove anything with ,300, in
 NR> it, and then anything with 300 at the end of the line, and then if you add
 NR> grep -v ^; it'll remove anything with a semi colon at the start of the
 NR> line.

 NR> I'm sure some genius will come up with an awk version but it won't be
 NR> easier to understand, or you could write a perl script to do it, I'm sure.

So what is wrong with my original version, that uses just 2 grep commands, and doesn't require the use of dos2unix with a special option before hand?

Here it is again, in case you missed it:

# grep -i ',-Unpublished-,' NODELIST.342 | grep -iv ',-Unpublished-,300'


Bye, Wilfred.

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