Thanks everyone!!!!
 

I just want to say thanks to everyone!

Getting the Gnu version of sed did indeed solve my problem - it amazes me because the source for my one-liner is from 5 years ago, so it sounds to me like the version of sed included with Jaguar must be *really* old. Oh well.

More than dealing with sed, though, I have learned a lot from all the comments on this thread. Thanks a ton, everyone. -Steve

steve: It doesn't have to be *very* old. It's just not GNU sed. Again, I'm surprised that Apple chooses not to go more fully GNU. And the choice of tcsh over bash or zsh is strange as well. It's like Apple has somehow grasped that Unix is powerful, but missed that GNU is the organisation that takes it to a fuller potential.

Thanks for the info thatch and sao! I'll try just that when my "fink install 'gtk+'" finishes ... which could take quite some while it seems.

$ fink -V
Package manager version: 0.11.0
Distribution version: 0.4.9.cvs

I did both "fink selfupdate-cvs" and "fink update-all" but I still can't eterm:

$ fink list '*eterm*'
Information about 769 packages read in 1 seconds.

I noticed on sao's output from fink that you had about 1,000 more packages... What am I doing wrong?

osxpez, did you use sudo for your self-update command? If so, something is not right because this is what I get:

You may have mentioned it earlier in this very long thread or elsewhere on the forum; but how did you install or upgrade your fink for Jaguar?

osxpez,

You probably forgot to edit your fink.conf file:
this step is highly recommended as most packages for 10.2 are in unstable. And after, run 'fink selfupdate-cvs' again.

Did you installed Fink from scratch from here?:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jag-bootstrap.php

Maybe you show us the result of 'sudo fink list'


Cheers...

sao: Thanks for beeing there! Yes, I installed Fink from scratch again using that URL. And I'm bloody sure I entered that "unstable" record into my fink.conf since the installation instructions told me to do so. But now when you suggested it again I had a check and it wasn't there. No wonder we have different "fink list" output. I'm running a "fink selfupdate-cvs" as of now and it surely seems to be working harder this time. :)

One more thing. You ask me if I used sudo for the fink update things. No, since fink seems to be using sudo itself (asking me for the password and all) I didn't think that was necessary.

osxpez,

Great, after your 'fink selfupdate-cvs' finishes, your list of available packages to install from source will increase by a lot.

You are right about using 'fink selfupdate-cvs', fink will automatically do it for you, asking you for a password, even when you didn't write 'sudo'.


Cheers...

Way off subject
 

Just to make everyone mad (or provide an alternate solution to using sed, perl, {g,m,a}wk):

% links -dump http://checkip.dyndns.org
Current IP Address: 12.34.56.789
Hostname: some.place.com

:mad: grrrrrrrrr!eat tip, TiMan!

Yes, that could be the right tool for the job. But maybe a bit bloaty if you just want to strip the html tags from a file on local disk. You all probably know that life is entirely about saving CPU cycles? :)

The beauty of the forums...I learn something new every day!

Now, we can all choose whatever way we need it.

Good tip, TiMan...!


Cheers...

Well for local files, I do:

cat foo.html | links -dump | less

but with all that piping and evoking of cat, links, and less, it might be a bit too bloaty for everyone to use ;)

UUOC watch dog - That should probably be:

links -dump < foo.html | less

i'm pretty sure this is a case of ØUUOC...

$ links -dump < poop.html | less
URL expected after -dump

pez, don't make me come over there.

Well, I don't have links installed, but that _must_ go for the "cat" version as well or links is a truly wierd program. What about:

$ links -dump bar.html | less

Depends some of what links regards as an URL.

It's not the processor cycles, but the typing that gets to me.

links -dump bar.html | less

not only works bit there is less typing than with my original siggestion. Thanks!

Great thread!
 

This one might deserve a rating it's so good, and even if you don't use links. Very educational.

BTW, I didn't realize that I didn't need sudo when doing a fink install. It's always been a habit while installing with fink for me.

kudos to that movie from Paul for it's demonstration of 'size really does matter'; at least in that instance the chainsaw won hands down, literally.

Re: Great thread!
 

dialog matters, too...

http://home.mindspring.com/~bduart/tobor.mov [ thanks, henry ]

Yes, definitely. An important point of this thread.

I like the movie. Strange though, I can't seem to save it with the 'save as' in IE. It complains that it can't save because the disk may be too full. My drive is only 41% full. There are currently no other movies in my ~/Movies.

With Paul's movie earlier today, I saved it and it played in a finder window from column view. But when I tried to play it again later on, it complained it couldn't find some certain file with a strange name consisting of numbers and letters, I think.