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From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Translating PostScript to ASCII: A Proposal
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Date: 25 Feb 91 06:15:16 GMT
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In-Reply-To: shiva@well.sf.ca.us's message of 23 Feb 91 09:05:57 GMT

Ok, I've been meaning to write this for a while...

Sort of the canonical 'sed' program.

Put this in your .cshrc file:

alias unps \(sed \
 \''s/^[ \t]*[^()]*$//g;s/%.*$//g;s/^[^(]*(//g;s/)[^(]*(/ /g;s/)[^)]*$//g;'\' \
 \| tr '\\012' '\\040' \| tr -s '\\040' '\\040' \; echo \'\'\)

and then "unps < somefile" will extract all of the PostScript strings from
"somefile."  There will be no newlines, and all occurences of multiple spaces
will be collapsed to a single space, so you'll need to wrap the lines by your
favorite method.
			-- Jamie