Hi Michael, Just a friendly reminder, if you could please upload the updated version of your lecture notes on Shell functions and Make Makefiles from last Wednesday. Thanks, Peter.

Hi Michael, I've been checking the sentence count for the full text of Huckleberry Finn you provided in your profile (6550). The only way I get this count is with a simple, single character pattern match of either full-stop, question-mark or exclamati...

Have you tested on the Huckleberry Finn full text and still match Michael's profile?

Does anyone on this forum know the answer to this question For the purposes of Assignment 2, are words that begin with an apostrophe (e.g., "'Roo", "'em") classified as conjunctions or just as simple words?

Hi Michael, In yesterday's lecture demo awk script "excise.awk", just want to confirm that if COL "", the first 'for' loop is ignored? BEGIN if (COL "") COL 1 start 2 else start 1 for (i start; i CO...

All good now Michael - thanks

Hi Michael, Just letting you know, as a of a few moments ago, Lecture 14 was still not accessible (to me at least) from the CITS4407 CITS2003 OPEN SOURCE TOOLS AND SCRIPTING website. Thanks, Peter.

Hi Michael, sample2.txt contains the compound word "one-and-only". Is the embedded "and" in this instance excluded from the conjunction count? Cheers, Peter

Using sed, suppose I wanted to replace any character that was member of a class of characters, e.g. punctuation. I know I can use a POSIX character class as a RegEx to do this. However, what if I wanted to exclude one or more characters in this class...

Hi Ryan, I just want to add to this thread by throwing out the question what is the strict definition of a 'word' for this assignment? What about the plural form e.g. bird and birds? With reference to the preceding discussion, if we ignore punctuatio...

Hi Ryan, When I remove the BOM, my method no longer produces the empty line. I now see your point about using tail. Thanks, Peter.

Thanks for the reply Ryan. I feel more comfortable having 'cleaned' all my text files (removed BOM and Ms). I'm not entirely clear on the meaning of the last paragraph of your reply however. Do you mean that is better to permanently edit the text fi...

RE Lecture 6 slide 9 I made the assumption that uses the same flags as test (BTW, how do you look up in the man pages???) and tried the following book test -f book echo ? 0 -f book echo ? 1 Anyone have any idea why the exit status is ...