I am trying to use rlwrap with sam -d for structural regular expressions in the taste of ed. However, sam sometimes outputs text that does not contain new lines. Here is an example.
$ cat input.txt
&Book: Programming Perl
&Author: Larry Wall&Author: Tom Christiansen&Author: Jon Orwant
&ISBN: 0-596-00027-8
And now I do this (note that sam is part of plan9port so should be invoked as 9 sam).
$ rlwrap 9 sam -d input.txt
-. input.txt
2x/^&[^&]+
&Author: Larry Wall▌
Here, 2x/^&[^&]+ means "taking line 2 as input, extract text that starts at the beginning of the line with & and that ends before another &".
You can see that sam did not output a newline character (▌ represents the cursor position), because it extracted only the inline part, which is normal.
But I would still like rlwrap to always display a newline at the end of outputs.
I tried with a filter with this, but I still don't have a newline at the end.
rlwrap -z "makefilter awk '{print}'" 9 sam -d -a input.txt
I am trying to use rlwrap with
sam -dfor structural regular expressions in the taste ofed. However,samsometimes outputs text that does not contain new lines. Here is an example.And now I do this (note that
samis part ofplan9portso should be invoked as9 sam).Here,
2x/^&[^&]+means "taking line 2 as input, extract text that starts at the beginning of the line with&and that ends before another&".You can see that
samdid not output a newline character (▌represents the cursor position), because it extracted only the inline part, which is normal.But I would still like
rlwrapto always display a newline at the end of outputs.I tried with a filter with this, but I still don't have a newline at the end.
Do you have guidance on how to do this? Thanks.