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Re: Is awk suitable for this?
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unruh
Sep 20, 2012, 12:40:58 PM9/20/12
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On 2012-09-20, Steve Hayes <haye...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:07:13 GMT, unruh <un...@invalid.ca> wrote:
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>>On 2012-09-19, Steve Hayes <haye...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:11:08 GMT, unruh <un...@invalid.ca> wrote:
>
>>Well, now you have seen how. But the chance that someone is going to
>>write the program for you is small. The headers are not the space
>>problem is saving emails. The body is. Even a very large header is going
>>to less than 1K, where the body these days is more like 1M or more.
>>So it is a pretty silly task (straining at the gnats while ignoring the
>>camel) to reduce the headers.
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> It's not a space problem, it's a readability problem. Ten years after a
> message has been sent, the routing information etc will be of little interest.
>
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>>>
>>> When someone asked if awk could perform a somewhat similar task, and there
>>> appeared to be some awk fundis who knew how to make the thing work, I then
>>> asked if it could do what I wanted it to do - in other words remove extraneous
>>> headers from saved e-mail messages, which would make it easier to import them
>>> into a database.
>>>
>>> As I said elsewhere, in spite of having a version of awk lurking on my
>>> computer for 20 years or so, I've never known how to used it, and I'm a
>>> complete novice, but I hope to learn something from those who do know how to
>>> use it.
>>
>>Buy the Awk book and read it.
>
> That's quite an expensive exercise if it turns out that awk is, after all, not
> suitable for the task.
>
> I'm glad that not all awk users are as rude and unhelpful as you.
Yes, especially as I was the only one who actually gave you awk code to
try to use to accomplish your task, which you have apparently never
actually tried to use.
Again, buy the awk book and read it. I have demonstrated that awk is
capable of doing it and shown you an example of how to do it, and made
suggestions as to how it could be extended. And now you find the
suggestion that you put in some work "rude and unhelpful". OK.
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> On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:07:13 GMT, unruh <un...@invalid.ca> wrote:
>
>>On 2012-09-19, Steve Hayes <haye...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:11:08 GMT, unruh <un...@invalid.ca> wrote:
>
>>Well, now you have seen how. But the chance that someone is going to
>>write the program for you is small. The headers are not the space
>>problem is saving emails. The body is. Even a very large header is going
>>to less than 1K, where the body these days is more like 1M or more.
>>So it is a pretty silly task (straining at the gnats while ignoring the
>>camel) to reduce the headers.
>
> It's not a space problem, it's a readability problem. Ten years after a
> message has been sent, the routing information etc will be of little interest.
>
>>
>>>
>>> When someone asked if awk could perform a somewhat similar task, and there
>>> appeared to be some awk fundis who knew how to make the thing work, I then
>>> asked if it could do what I wanted it to do - in other words remove extraneous
>>> headers from saved e-mail messages, which would make it easier to import them
>>> into a database.
>>>
>>> As I said elsewhere, in spite of having a version of awk lurking on my
>>> computer for 20 years or so, I've never known how to used it, and I'm a
>>> complete novice, but I hope to learn something from those who do know how to
>>> use it.
>>
>>Buy the Awk book and read it.
>
> That's quite an expensive exercise if it turns out that awk is, after all, not
> suitable for the task.
>
> I'm glad that not all awk users are as rude and unhelpful as you.
Yes, especially as I was the only one who actually gave you awk code to
try to use to accomplish your task, which you have apparently never
actually tried to use.
Again, buy the awk book and read it. I have demonstrated that awk is
capable of doing it and shown you an example of how to do it, and made
suggestions as to how it could be extended. And now you find the
suggestion that you put in some work "rude and unhelpful". OK.
>
> [follow ups set]
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