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Old 06-23-04, 15:51
sjumma sjumma is offline
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Merging Text file
I have text file's containg many rows and about 8 columns

on the 3rd column their is time

Is there a utility that will merge this file according to this column

so if i have 2 files

624?????.xyz and 624?????.abc
gives one big file

624?????.def

their are many files (624 is 6th month and 24thday)

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Old 06-23-04, 16:22
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On either the Unix or the NT side you could use Perl.

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Old 06-23-04, 16:30
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Why not load them to tables and use SQL?
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Old 06-23-04, 16:47
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Check here. Lots of files, very little data in each file.

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