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Re: [help-recutils] Select records by number
From: |
Jose E. Marchesi |
Subject: |
Re: [help-recutils] Select records by number |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:16:19 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
> For the a random record I use this in my script:
>
> I am curious: what are you using the random selection feature for? A
> file with fortune cookies? The message of the day?
Are you read my mind ;)
You're right, I use random to select a random quote with conky on my
root window.
rec file is more simple, human friendly, scalable and editable than
fortune (you don't have to use strfile).
Actually it is a shame fortune is not using plain text files. Shall we
contact them to ask them to use recfiles instead? :)
Waiting the next version with impatience.
It will come soon.
Do you plan to have multiple fileds sort ?
%sort: field1, field2 ...
Hm, that would introduce some difficulties due to the ability of records
to directly contain 1-N relationships:
Foo: foo
Bar: bar
Bar: baz
Foo: another foo
Bar: another bar
Bar: zzz
How would you sort that? Alternatively you can use several calls to
recsel with several -S.
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Jose E. Marchesi http://www.jemarch.net
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