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<oerjan> sed -i "4cperl -i -p -e \'s/\\\\n/ /\' "\'"wisdom/$topic"\' bin/learn_append # from stackoverflow
author HackBot
date Tue, 30 Sep 2014 06:07:26 +0000
parents 08f4d34ddc3b
children fd2b9bd218db
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#!/bin/bash
topic=$(echo "$1" | lowercase | sed 's/^\(an\?\|the\) //;s/s\? .*//')
stuff=$(echo "$1" | cut -d' ' -f2-)
perl -i -p -e 's/
/ /' "wisdom/$topic"
/ /' "wisdom/$topic"
//' "wisdom/$topic"
echo "$stuff" >>"wisdom/$topic"
echo "I knew that."