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Does anyone on this dump actually *use* GNU/Linux for productive
purposes?

If so, then please post a favorite utility that assists you and
that is not in the mainstream distros (which are all junk anyway).

One of my faves is "FAR," or "Find And Replace":

https://findandreplace.sourceforge.net/

This is one FANTASTIC Utility! Most importantly, it spans multiple
lines, as opposed to the line-oriented behavior of "sed" and other
variants.

The web site front page is a bit off in that the current version is
2.0.3.

Brother, if you ain't using FAR then you must have nothing to do.

Please post other such "hidden" utilities/
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W dniu 24.08.2025 o-a21:18, Farley Flud pisze:

This is one FANTASTIC Utility! Most importantly, it spans multiple
lines, as opposed to the line-oriented behavior of "sed" and other
variants.

The web site front page is a bit off in that the current version is
2.0.3.

Brother, if you ain't using FAR then you must have nothing to do.

False! I have my own command line text-stream editor, witch works in two modes: line (default) and optional block (mean: multiline). I use it
every day among other my tools.

BTW I can notable mention: my custom text editor and my custom file
manager. They are very small, very smart: they use command line programs
when possible, and even generate scripts in /tmp in order to preform
required tasks, and my progs are easy extendable due to plug-in oriented
arch. One of my gold rules is: "I solve problems, and not reinvent the
wheel". My programs are fully usable for me and eg. my file manager has
less than 1/10 LOC of KDE Krusader code sources. No mention that KDE
Krusader is monolithic piece of crap without any way to add even
primitive plug-in, and any mod require hack its enormous code sources.
Sadly, this is the current "KDE way".
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W dniu 24.08.2025 o-a21:18, Farley Flud pisze:

This is one FANTASTIC Utility! Most importantly, it spans multiple
lines, as opposed to the line-oriented behavior of "sed" and other
variants.

The web site front page is a bit off in that the current version is
2.0.3.

Brother, if you ain't using FAR then you must have nothing to do.

False! I have my own command line text-stream editor, witch works in two modes: line (default) and optional block (mean: multiline). I use it
every day among other my tools.

BTW I can notable mention: my custom text editor and my custom file
manager. They are very small, very smart: they use command line programs
when possible, and even generate scripts in /tmp in order to preform
required tasks, and my progs are easy extendable due to plug-in oriented
arch. One of my gold rules is: "I solve problems, and not reinvent the
wheel". My programs are fully usable for me and eg. my file manager has
less than 1/10 LOC of KDE Krusader code sources. No mention that KDE
Krusader is monolithic piece of crap without any way to add even
primitive plug-in, and any mod require hack its enormous code sources.
Sadly, this is the current "KDE way".
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 22:47:16 +0200, Efc|Efc#Jacek Marcin JaworskiEfc|Efc# wrote:

False! I have my own command line text-stream editor, witch works in two modes: line (default) and optional block (mean: multiline). I use it
every day among other my tools.

It cannot be as versatile as FAR.

FAR can allow a full backup and restore of possibly thousands
of files.

FAR also provides a GUI for search and selection, with selection
being either regex or globbing.

You should check out FAR. After knowing FAR, you will use FAR
all the time.
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 22:44:00 +0200, Efc|Efc#Jacek Marcin JaworskiEfc|Efc# wrote:

I have my own command line text-stream editor, witch works in two
modes: line (default) and optional block (mean: multiline).

Instead of writing my own editor from scratch, I find it far less work to create custom commands for some existing extensible editing engine, like Emacs.

I did once have a need for multiline pattern matches, in a custom command
for doing word counts on HTML documents. This required stripping out all
the HTML tags (on a temporary copy of the text, of course), and tag
content of course can extend across multiple lines.

Apparently there are potential serious performance issues with doing this
kind of thing. I solved the problem quite simply and efficiently, by
searching for the beginning and ending tags separately.

<https://gitlab.com/ldo/emacs-prefs/-/blob/master/unhtml-wc.el>
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 22:33:03 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

I did once have a need for multiline pattern matches, in a custom command for doing word counts on HTML documents...

Apparently there are potential serious performance issues with doing this kind of thing. I solved the problem quite simply and efficiently, by searching for the beginning and ending tags separately.

Perl allows multiline regex replacement and I doubt that there are any performance issues.

For example, to strip all javascript from HTML files I use this Perl
command:

perl -0777 -pe 's/<script.*?script>//gs' dirty_file.html | perl -0777 -pe 's/<noscript.*?script>//gs' - > clean-file.html

Javascipt code can encompass hundreds of lines but this command strips
them clean.

The "-0777" option reads the whole file.

If the file is too large for multiple passes then use:

perl -p0e 's/<script.*?script>//gs' dirty_file.html | perl -p0e 's/<noscript.*?script>//gs' - > clean-file.html

The "-p0e" option will replace line breaks (i.e. LF or CR/LF) with the
NUL character.

Perl is the greatly underrated programming language.

The increasing hordes of incompetent dilettantes use Python.
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On 2025-08-24, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 22:44:00 +0200, Efc|Efc#Jacek Marcin JaworskiEfc|Efc# wrote:

I have my own command line text-stream editor, witch works in two
modes: line (default) and optional block (mean: multiline).

Instead of writing my own editor from scratch, I find it far less work to create custom commands for some existing extensible editing engine, like Emacs.

I did once have a need for multiline pattern matches, in a custom command for doing word counts on HTML documents. This required stripping out all
the HTML tags (on a temporary copy of the text, of course), and tag
content of course can extend across multiple lines.

Apparently there are potential serious performance issues with doing this kind of thing. I solved the problem quite simply and efficiently, by searching for the beginning and ending tags separately.

<https://gitlab.com/ldo/emacs-prefs/-/blob/master/unhtml-wc.el>

Emacs can do search and replace over multiple files in dired. Indeed,
once you learn Emacs you can simply put the capability that is missing
into Emacs, rather than have to lok for another editor, or write one of
your own.
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Le 24-08-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a |-crit-a:

Does anyone on this dump actually *use* GNU/Linux for productive
purposes?

Not you for sure.

If so, then please post a favorite utility that assists you and
that is not in the mainstream distros (which are all junk anyway).

I'm a normal guy. So, if I have a need, someone else has the same need.
If my need is very important, a lot of people have the same need. So, if
a lot of people have the same need, there is a fair chance that someone answered it and packaged it. So if a lot of people have the same need
and the answer is good, there is a really high probability for it to be available in main distros.

One of my faves is "FAR," or "Find And Replace":

https://findandreplace.sourceforge.net/

It's available in main distros. You lost. Same player tries again.
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