Re: Scripting question

["Andrew B. Cramer" <andrew.cramer@cramer-ts.com>]

Hi Michael,
	Switch to PERL. You open the input files, then open the output file, 
sort, and write. Perhaps if there are duplicates, you need additional 
information, like a datestamp for each entry to compare.

(.02) - Andrew

On 22 Jan 2003 at 21:14, Michael French wrote:

>     I have a couple of scripts that I am working on that pull data from an
> application and print a human readable report from the data.  I have all of
> the data pulled and stored in variables, but I am stumped on how to put in
> all in one file.  I hope that I can clearly explain this, here goes.
> 
>     For one script, I have three pieces of info to report: node name,
> customer name, and total data stored.  The first two bits of data are
> getting pulled out together and stored in one file.  The third bit is being
> calculated and then stored in a second file.  I then get the data in like
> this:
> 
> NODES=`cat nodeinfo.txt | awk '{print $1}'`
> CUSTOMER=`cat nodeinfo.txt | awk '{print $2}'`
> MBTOTALS=`cat mbtotals.txt`
> 
> I then need to print out a report like:
> 
> Nodes        Customer        MB
> ----------------------------------
> node1           customer1        20.0
> 
> How can I do this?  I can't seem to figure out how to do it with one for
> loop.
> 
>     I have another little script I am working on to report restore data and
> it has one temp file holding all of the info I need and is greping out about
> 10 different pieces of data I need before overwriting the temp file with the
> info on the next node.  The problem I have run into is that some of the
> restores have duplicate data in them so I am going to have to rewrite the
> report to put the data in variables and then loop through them to generate a
> report just like the one above, except with more variables so you can see
> why I am trying to figure out how to do this as cleanly as possible.  Maybe
> I am starting off all wrong so feel free to redirect me.  Also, I am using
> Korn shell to do this (my only option).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Michael French
> 
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