Script to find a specific section in file & insert text below - how?

I am dealing with kind of a problem here - I am using pekwm as my window manager and I use menumaker to automatically update the menu on every startup. My problem is that the original pekwm, the first two sections called 'terminal' and 'Run' and the last two sections called 'Go To' and 'pekwm' are overwritten/modified by mmaker so that there's only the applications submenues and 'pekwm' with the 'Themes' section erased and I want to somehow preserve all that. I was thinking of creating a bash script that does the mmaker thing and then use 'sed' or 'echo' to insert the code back into the appropiate areas of ~/.pekwm/menu.
All I really need to know is how to find a particular string of code in the menu file and insert a block of text below that line using sed or echo.
Any ideas?
Last edited by lostinpurdy (2010-07-10 02:32:38)

Looks interesting. But I'd like to keep it as simple as possible and avoid the part with the extra textfiles and just insert the code text straight into the menu file, kind of like this:
mmaker --no-desktop -vf pekwm
sed {
find-and-goto-line-below-'root menu'-declaration, insert-text {
entry for 'terminal'
entry for 'run"
~/.pekwm/menu
sed {
find-line-below-'pekwm'-submenu-declaration, insert-text {
entry for 'themes'
~/.pekwm/menu
Obviously it's not real code but it's just to outline how I'd like to have it. Just need to know the correct syntax to make it work. I don't care much for 'Go To' and the rest.
Last edited by lostinpurdy (2010-07-10 03:48:10)

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Script to change page to section in entire document

Hi,
using CS2 (WIN) I have a problem with setting sections which might sound trivial. From time to time I have to set-up a questionnaire containing forms. These forms will be filled in later by the user. In order to give some advice on how to fill in the forms correctly, completion instructions will be provided as well. The problem now is that I have to create the forms first on numbered pages. After they have been reviewed, the instructions are added next to each questionnaire form and these must not have page numbers. Up to now I use two masterpages (one with and one without page numbers) but it is very time-consuming to set a new section for each numbered page manually (several 100 pages), so I was wondering if there is a possibility to let a script do the "splitting into sections" work once the numbered pages have bee set up, before I add the completion instruction pages.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Angus

Looks interesting. But I'd like to keep it as simple as possible and avoid the part with the extra textfiles and just insert the code text straight into the menu file, kind of like this:
mmaker --no-desktop -vf pekwm
sed {
find-and-goto-line-below-'root menu'-declaration, insert-text {
entry for 'terminal'
entry for 'run"
~/.pekwm/menu
sed {
find-line-below-'pekwm'-submenu-declaration, insert-text {
entry for 'themes'
~/.pekwm/menu
Obviously it's not real code but it's just to outline how I'd like to have it. Just need to know the correct syntax to make it work. I don't care much for 'Go To' and the rest.
Last edited by lostinpurdy (2010-07-10 03:48:10)

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