Hey, musher Just to let you know I've uploaded the latest fields.awk to SourceForge so it has its own download page now. You can find it at https://sourceforge.net/projects/fields-awk/ Also, the ebook is now available on both iBooks and Barnes&Noble in addition to the Lulu site. The Barnes&N...

Hello Christian :) I hope you can manage to download a copy eventually. It has come a long way since the early version. There are several new modules, including one for editing/printing/deleting any files saved to from the read module, and one for encrypting data-files using the command-utility &quo...

Hey Puppy Linux users, It's been a while since you've been commenting on the fields.awk database script. If anyone is interested in pursuing this subject in greater depth, I have just published a book tutorial on the latest version which some of you might enjoy. At the moment it's available at Lulu....

@greengeek Hi, just noticed your (almost) recent questions about fields.awk. As for the idea of automatically inserting the field_name info into every line of the data file, you _could_ make that happen by altering one line in the END section of the write_to() module: printf ("%s::", field...

@Pete

Outstanding
Glad you like it.

Hello all, @Pete You got me thinking about some good additional functions, and before I knew it I was coding again... I have added some new functionality to fields.awk. Feel free to download and tinker with the upgraded version, fields_ext.awk. This is a real zip archive (.bz2) so you have to unzip ...

@Pete Hi, Yes, that is a possibility alright. At the end of the read_from function where printing of the search output occurs: case $PRINTORNOT in [Yy]*) printf "`cat $OP`\n" | fold -s >> ~/Desktop/$SAVEAS.txt echo "Your file was saved as $SAVEAS.txt in ~/Desktop.";; Instead of i...

@Pete Hi, Yes I thought about using $# to automatically detect the number of fields, and it could work. But there is one thing to consider. As is, OPselect2/3 will output to the screen. If you want to save the output to a file, you'd be adding something like "> [savefilename]" at the end, ...

@all Follow up to previous post on filtering "Read Search Output" files for displaying 2 or 3 selected Fields only. Although the "egrep" command sequence works, it is a bit too complex to be practical unless you could make a "one-liner" script which takes your selected ...

@Pete Hi, Glad to hear you've managed to get Zshaolin installed on an Android device. I use the Volume_Up button for CTRL (and Volume_Down for ESC). But that is because I specifically mapped them to those keys. In the startup screen for Zshaolin, you should see a 6-part menu: [Start ZShaolin] [Insta...

Pelo wrote:

First CLI needs to speak english, what can eject 95% of people having a computer.

I hadn't thought of that, very true.

@musher0
BONNE FÊTE DU CANADA!

My view is that Windows users may be even more reluctant than Linux ones when it comes to using the CLI. @Pete That's my gut feeling as well. Still it's interesting to see how adaptable it is to various versions of the bash shell environment. @all greengeek earlier brought up the issue of printing ...

@Pete

I never thought I'd see fields.awk running on a Windows machine.
Wonders never cease.
It makes me curious how well/poorly it might be received by that new audience.

Perhaps fields.awk reasons that "Searching for nothing" is the same as "Searching for anything"....
Is there a lesson there?

@greengeek Just so happens there's an app for that :) This is incredibly simple and I don't even know why it works, but it does. Discovered early on that if you just hit ENTER when prompted for the search string, fields.awk spews out the entire database at one go. No need to agonize over what might ...

@Pete
Whoa, I didn't know that. Thanks.
On mine, its SETTINGS -> CONTROLS -> PALM MOTION
It wouldn't do it while the keyboard was loaded, but as soon as that was backed off it worked.

@greengeek
Could not get the simultaneous button method to work.

@all
Sorry about that. Meant to mention that it was a fake zip. Such a small file didn't seem to need actual zipping.

Thank you Christian (musher0) for pointing that out.

@Pete
Thank you for the link to Puppy Linux time line. My, how you've diversified.

@Pete I can answer yes for two of those. Fields.awk will run on a Mac running OSx because I tried it a few years back on a Mac mini. Who knows if recent shell changes might have nixed that however. As for tablets, I have fields.awk running on a Samsung Galaxy 7" screen tablet. This was achieved...

@greengeek No worries. I have no objections to any of this. Sounds awesome. So you are using Slackware? @Pete Thank you for explaining what a .pet is. I was wondering about that. Regarding /usr/local/bin for system-available executables: Seems this should not be necessary for anyone using Puppy Linu...

Hi guys, Just a note that recently I did some experimenting with FreeBSD (an alternate unix clone for home computers) in response to concerns over the migration to systemd in most of the Linux distros, including my preferred Debian. I installed FreeBSD on two older laptops [and Acer Aspire (Intel) a...