[9fans] Sam scripting

[9fans] Sam scripting

[Koray Erkan]

Another Sam question (If enough voices raise objections, I'll try to create the "comp.editor.sam.do-play-it-again"
newsgroup) :

Can Sam be used as a *scripting* engine/server?

Its command language is powerful and just what I need for so many chores in some of my work (software localization), so
I'd be happy to learn that I can write a bunch of command sequences that I can mix with a scripting language (say a
Cygwin bash script, or a Pyhton/Ruby thing under Windows) and then forward them to Sam to batch process some files.


Thanks

-- Koray

P.S. Very pedantic note: The name rhymes with "rhye," not "say." Sorry, but it generally happens that with English
speakers, the spelling first becomes "Korey", then the "e" drops and it becomes "Kory", finally someone - thinking it's
best to avoid creative spelling - turns it into Cory. Nada! Not everything in Latin script is a transliteration of
something into English. In modern Turkish, our 'a' is always as in "car."

Re: [9fans] Sam scripting

[erik quanstrom]

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sure, you can use sam for scripting.  one can suppress
starting samterm with the -d option.  though this is more
like using ed in a script than sed.

i attached a unix script that i use to find people in
address files with records containing a '^NAME	' field,
delimited by newlines.  it's written for byron's rc.

there's also an "ssam" out there analogous to sed.
i believe this is the url:
	http://www.freshports.org/editors/ssam/
though i haven't checked it myself.

- erik

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#!/usr/local/bin/rc
# bugs -- case sensitive matching

nl = '
'
bookdir = $home/doc/address
book = ()

if (~ $1 -b){
	shift
	if (~ $1 /* ./ ../)
		book = $1
	else
		book = $bookdir/$1
	shift
} else {
	for (i in $bookdir/*)
		if (test -f $i)
			book = ($book $i)
}

if (~ $#* 0)
	exit 0

args = $1
shift
for (i)
	args = $args'|'$i

echo 'X:.: , x/^\n/+/(.+\n)+/ g/^NAME.*('^$args^')/ p' | \
	sam -d $book >[2] /dev/null | \
	sed '2,$ s/^NAME/\'$nl'&/g'

RE: [9fans] Sam scripting

[Koray Erkan]

Fantastic! Exactly what I needed. Thanks, Erik.

-- K

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 9fans-bounces+koray.erkan=yahoo.com@cse.psu.edu
> [mailto:9fans-bounces+koray.erkan=yahoo.com@cse.psu.edu]On Behalf Of erik quanstrom
> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:13 PM
> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam scripting
>
>
> sure, you can use sam for scripting.  one can suppress
> starting samterm with the -d option.  though this is more
> like using ed in a script than sed.
>
> i attached a unix script that i use to find people in
> address files with records containing a '^NAME	' field,
> delimited by newlines.  it's written for byron's rc.
>
> there's also an "ssam" out there analogous to sed.
> i believe this is the url:
> 	http://www.freshports.org/editors/ssam/
> though i haven't checked it myself.
>
> - erik

Re: [9fans] Sam scripting

[LiteStar numnums]

This is the direct site:
http://www.westley.demon.co.uk/software.html
Or the direct link
http://www.westley.demon.co.uk/src/ssam-1.9.tar.gz

On 11/23/06, Koray Erkan <koray.erkan@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Fantastic! Exactly what I needed. Thanks, Erik.
>
> -- K
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 9fans-bounces+koray.erkan=yahoo.com@cse.psu.edu
> > [mailto:9fans-bounces+koray.erkan=yahoo.com@cse.psu.edu]On Behalf Of erik quanstrom
> > Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:13 PM
> > To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> > Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam scripting
> >
> >
> > sure, you can use sam for scripting.  one can suppress
> > starting samterm with the -d option.  though this is more
> > like using ed in a script than sed.
> >
> > i attached a unix script that i use to find people in
> > address files with records containing a '^NAME        ' field,
> > delimited by newlines.  it's written for byron's rc.
> >
> > there's also an "ssam" out there analogous to sed.
> > i believe this is the url:
> >       http://www.freshports.org/editors/ssam/
> > though i haven't checked it myself.
> >
> > - erik
>


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