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Final Draft 9/8: How to create a title page

The title page of a Final Draft document contains information of the Title, Author, Copyright and at times the cast, scene & set info. Its advisable to fine tune it to ones requirement to give your document a finished look

Here is how to modify the Title Page in Final Draft 8/9:

Open the title page in the following way:
- in Final Draft 9 for windows: click on Title Page icon in the Ribbon
- in Final Draft 9 for Mac or Final Draft 8: goto the Toolbar and choose Document > Title Page.
Type the information over the existing sample text.
3. Go to File > Close.
4. Once back at your script, simply save it (File > Save) and your title page is saved with the script.

Search for Multiple Strings in Linux Command Line

Problem: I have a text file with a lot of information, I need to pick lines of information containing a particular pattern(s) and store it in another file

Solution: Use egrep to filter out lines with required pattens and write the result in a file.

egrep is actually a short form for “grep -E”, a command used to handle pattens while searching.

For Eg.
Lets say you have a text file with a list of file names and you want to filter out only those names that are of a certian type. For the sake of this example lets assume you want to only see filenames of files ending with .mp3 or .wav or .ogg

The command you need to use is:

cat file | egrep “.mp3|.wav|.ogg” > musiclist.txt

Voila you now have a file that sorts out your music files.

Bonus: If you want to list out all the music files you have stored under a particular directory you can use the following command

ls -1R /path/to/music | egrep “.mp3|.wav|.ogg” > musiclist.txt