AWK GChat parser
Companion code for this post: http://evanmuehlhausen.com/analyze-gchat-transcripts-in-awk/
To run it:
gawk -f parse_gchat.awk transcript.txt
You should see:
me: 59 words (59%), 290 characters (58%) Jose: 41 words (41%), 207 characters (41%) exchanges: 14 duration: 20 minutes dead_time: 6 minutes
To run it on your own transcript, pull up the chat log in Gmail, press print and then cut and paste it into a text file:
gawk -f parse_gchat.awk my_transcript.txt