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Mon 18 Mar 2024 10:26:41 PM UTC
Had been wanting to try my hand at an AWK-based shlog reader for a while
and when I noticed some people's posts were not displaying in the default
client though their permissions were fine I decided now was a good time:
$ ~zilog/public_bin/shlawk ?
a simple RTC shlog reader written in AWK.
use: shlawk [?|N] ; N = # posts to display (10 default)
selected posts are displayed via less(1).
The number of lines in the user's TERM gets used to page listings if
N is more than can be displayed in one screen. Also some people stick
non-shlog files in their ~/.shlog/ directory so files that don't begin
with "20" are excluded. Post titles wider than 50 chars get displayed
truncated in listings, ie., "this is too wide...".
Displaying last 5 posts (narrowed slightly for this post):
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$ ~zilog/public_bin/shlawk 5
[:shlawk:] RTC shlog reader :: displaying last 10 posts..
2024-03-18 Re:_Backing_up_RTC_files.txt jmq [1]
2024-03-18 Backing-up-RTC-files mrpieceofwork [2]
2024-03-14 Re:_Buying_Music.txt jmq [3]
2024-03-08 Nex_and_perl_adventure.txt gorf [4]
2024-03-07 knight_vs_bishop_endgame.txt jmq [5]
enter post # or (q)uit:
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Since nawk is now available on RTC I opted not to make use of any Gawk
extensions and stuck to plain POSIX AWK. The only drawback is there is
no good way to pass a dashed argument such as "--help" to a nawk script;
it displays an "unknown option" message then runs the script with the
defaults, fortunately not so bad in this case.