Compare output of UNIX command and match data to text file

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Originally Posted by cjcox

Don, while he might be saying he's running sed 3400 times, if instead they are 3400 sed commands in single invocation, it will run faster than your awk (just saying).

You might be right. I looked at:

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I created a sed script which contains about 3,400 sed commands like the one below:

Code:

sed -i.bak 's/143  ISOL     INDT/SA 4119-4-4-0143-ST_ALBANS/' masterreport.txt

and interpreted it as "a shell script containing 3,400 sed commands ...". If jbrass meant what you're describing, I would have expected it to be something more like: "a sed script which contains about 3,400 substitute commands...".

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