UB Hacking 2020 Presentation
Description
This is a talk that I gave at UB Hacking 2020 about text processing at the command line. The talk is over, but the slides remain!
Layout
The file text-processing.org is the slides, presented using
M-x org-present in Emacs. The commands in the slides are (mostly)
debugged; I strongly suspect the long awk command has a bug regarding
the first line of the scores file.
The file sectioned.txt is example data for the sed command.
The files roster.csv and scores are sample “student” data for fake UB
students. It is used for most of the other commands.
Data
The fields in roster.csv are:
ubitname,personnum,Lastname,Firstname
The fields in scores.txt are:
ubitname score
Elisp
The elisp in utilities.el should not be confused with good elisp, but
it was used to generate the UBITNames and person numbers in
rosters.csv.
Disclaimer
The names in roster.csv are, to the best of my knowledge, completely
artificial. Any match to a real name is coincidence. They were
generated using an online random name generator, and are 50% male and
50% female (by the lights of the generator). I did not vet them for
suitability except for a very rapid glance over the list. I take no
responsibility for anything you don’t like in that list.
License
Copyright 2020 Ethan Blanton <eblanton@buffalo.edu>
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