How should I map the range from plant name to the new line before *description* being aware that the index it’s not the same length for each data block?

There’s some event you want to watch for, and when it happens you want to respond by adding a scheduled task to cron? I think I’m getting that wrong but what exactly do you want to catch or respond to?

/proc/${pid}/cmdline will tell you the command line which was used

/proc/$(pidof python)/cmdline if it’s the only one

but it sounds kind of weird what you’re attempting

if you have run a command, and wanted to run it in a loop instead but don’t want to wait until it finishes

most shells/terms allow you to buffer the input, unless the keyboard is trapped

so just type while true; do !!; done

and hit enter

it’ll run once the program you were waiting to complete finishes

So that’s not possible?

i didn’t fully understand what your end goal here is

Can we us a running process inside crontab ?

I’m not sure I fully understand this question.

to me it sounds like the event.py should be written in a way that it runs forever, like a daemon thing.

That isn’t strictly necessary. I’d probably be keener to drag something like runit or s6 into the picture anyway. When the Python script exits, the process supervisor will just stand it back up again.

You’d still have that problem with a poorly-written daemon.

I have a question regarding sed|awk.
I have a bunch of text data that follows this pattern:

Plant name

Index:
Description
Origin
Related species
History

*description*

How should I map the range from plant name to the new line before *description* being aware that the index it’s not the same length for each data block?
Is it possible with sed? Or do I need some combination with awk?
The goal is to delete that block once selected

will it be a script that runs often or is it a one-time-job?

Only on demand, triggered by the user

I’m trying to figure out how the relative offsets after a pattern can be done like in Vim

but it seems it’s not possible in sed

Ouch

I’m still investigating

there are some other ways I guess

Thanks! I’ve spent the whole afternoon yesterday trying to figure it out with sed. Another option could be doing it in python (or similar) maybe?

of course, with vim easily, yes also on commandline with vim. you would treat vim like sed

but now I’m learning new stuff about sed and I want to able to use it for the scenario

sed ‘/Plant/,/description/{/description/!d}’

try this

hoping I understood you correctly

oh, wow! Let me try

hmm, it throws extra characters at the end of d command. That happened yesterday with the i command too. I’m looking how to solve it

oh wait

I used “description” but you meant description as a placeholder for whatever text may come, right?

then my solution wont work

No, no. It’s working now!