2016 — 10 January: Sunday
The Tchaikovsky violin concerto1 is an utter delight. Though the identity of its violinist was what provoked the email exchange that (in turn) revealed (to me) the parlous state of my music lists when it came to searching out stuff to answer the question "But what about (gypsy violinist) Roby Lakatos?" — all I could find was my having noted his appearance with his quintet, live, on an edition of the BBC's "In Tune" programme in June 2009. And since that was long before the BBC had changed their web page generation process into the form that Brian's magic bit of Python can search for me, I had to do it the old-fashioned way:
I note they had fun with accents in describing the music he played!
As what sounds like...
... a solo performance of the dawn chorus gets going, and with a fresh cuppa now firmly clutched in my now post-sleep hand, it's surely a good time to start my research into some global, recursive, "find and replace" text file editing techniques? I need something to fill the dreadful gap in my (computing) life caused by a casualty — the excellent "Wild Edit" program — during my forced route march not entirely capricious decision to migrate away from Windows nearly a year ago.
Since this is Linux, and since I keep being told that "anything's possible with Linux", just how hard can it be to parameterise the automated removal and re-insertion of four (subtly differing) chunks of text in every page on this web site?
That was a rhetorical question
All I really need is an adroit combination of Grep and Sed. I was hoping to go to my grave without invoking any of that juju.
UltraEdit to the rescue? It has a promising "Find and Replace" dialogue. And I only have 7,500 or so 'textual' files to deal with as I can ignore the 7,500 image files.
Note to self
Next week's edition of "Private Passions" is a repeat of the one with Henry Marsh as the guest. Big Bro's presence here last July clearly must have disrupted my "normal" listening processes.
Spot the (subtle) difference!
It took five minutes to backup the Linux system partition into a 4.8GB lump of TAR on my external 4TB drive. And another five to do the upgrade. I've added brief notes to the start of my existing 17.2 description. The upgrade to 17.3 could not have been simpler.