Newlines in heredoc

Voetsjoeba · 10-31-2006, 09:12 AM

Hi there,

I have to write a shell script ( Solaris 8 s28_38shwp2 SPARC machine ) that will return the arguments that were passed along to it, but in reversed order, eg:

~$ ./reverse abc def ghi
ghi def abc

But since this is for my studies and we technically haven't seen much editors beyond vi/ex and ed, I can only use those. We need to solve this one using ex. Since ex is not a stream editor but a file editor, I figured I'd have to use some temporary file, and use ex on it. So here's my idea:

#!/bin/sh
echo $@ > .reverse.tmp
ex - .reverse.tmp <<HERE
1,1s/ /^V^M/g
# invert the word order here: g/^/.m0
# strip newlines here
wq
HERE
cat .reverse.tmp
rm .reverse.tmp

But the problem here is that no matter what I try, it just won't grab that newline. The words just get concatenated without a newline inbetween each. I don't see how I could avoid using heredoc since it also needs to save the changes, not just perform them. For that I tried 1,1s/ /^V^M/g/w, which also didn't seem to work.

Any help is appreciated, I've been trying to get this working for the past 2 hours and it's getting on my nerves.

matthewg42 · 11-01-2006, 07:01 AM

Does it have to be done in the shell? It's easy in perl...

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
map { print $_ . " "; } reverse @ARGV;
print "\n";

Voetsjoeba · 11-01-2006, 11:08 AM

Unfortunately, yes :/ It must be a shell script.

matthewg42 · 11-01-2006, 11:27 AM

Is this something you have been set for homework?

matthewg42 · 11-01-2006, 11:27 AM

Is this something you have been set for homework?

unSpawn · 11-01-2006, 12:26 PM

Is this something you have been set for homework?
Apparently it is since he stated

Quote:

Originally Posted by Voetsjoeba

But since this is for my studies

in his OP. Anyway. There is an example in this forum, say within the past 6 months, where somebody had to do the same but without using "rev"...

Voetsjoeba · 11-02-2006, 05:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

Is this something you have been set for homework?
Apparently it is since he stated in his OP. Anyway. There is an example in this forum, say within the past 6 months, where somebody had to do the same but without using "rev"...

Any keywords to search for ?

unSpawn · 11-04-2006, 11:36 AM

Any keywords to search for ?
How about just plain "reverse"? Anyway. This is the thread you're looking for.