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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sorting data and place them in different folders Post 302195001 by era on Wednesday 14th of May 2008 06:19:04 AM
Old 05-14-2008
Perhaps at this point it would make sense to step back and tell us what platform you're on and whether you can figure out the versions of sed and awk you have at your disposal.

If you're on something like HP-UX or Irix and you have very old versions of both awk and sed, maybe a Perl script would be the best solution.

If you're on HP-UX or Solaris then there may be more recent versions of these commands if you look around for a bit. Search these forums for xpg4 and the name of your platform for some pointers.

Maybe you have a command nawk or mawk or gawk which would work better than just awk.

Here's a Perl script, for the heck of it.

Code:
perl -ne 'if (m/^(AAA|BBB)\|/) { open (H, ">>$1.dat"); print H; close H; }' numbers.dat

This isn't very efficient because it will open a new file handle for each match. It could be improved but it's just a proof of concept anyway.
 

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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX

rmf

rmf(1mh)																  rmf(1mh)

Name
       rmf - remove folder

Syntax
       rmf [ +folder ] [ -help ] [ -[no]interactive ]

Description
       The  command  removes all of the messages within the current folder, and then removes the folder itself.  If there are any files within the
       folder which are not part of MH, they are not removed, and an error message is displayed.

       You can specify a folder other than the current folder by using the +folder argument.  If you do not specify a folder, and cannot find  the
       current folder, asks you whether you want to delete instead.

       If the current folder is removed, it makes current.

       Note that the command irreversibly deletes messages that do not have other links, so use it with caution.

       If  the folder being removed is a sub-folder, the parent folder becomes the new current folder, and tells you that this has happened.  This
       provides an easy mechanism for selecting a set of messages, operating on the list, then removing the list  and  returning  to  the  current
       folder from which the list was extracted.

       Using to delete a read-only folder deletes the private sequence and current message information from the file, without affecting the folder
       itself.	If you have sub-folders within a folder, you must delete all the sub-folders before you can delete the folder itself.

Options
       -help	 Prints a list of the valid options to this command.

       -interactive
       -nointeractive
		 Asks for confirmation before deleting a folder.  By default, deletes a folder and its messages without asking	for  confirmation.
		 If  you  specify  the	-interactive option, asks if you are sure before deleting the folder.  You are advised to use this option,
		 since when deletes a folder its contents are lost irretrievably.

Examples
       This example shows how asks for confirmation when the -interactive option is used:
       % rmf -interactive +test
       Remove folder "test"? y

Profile Components
       Path:   To determine the user's Mail directory

Files
       The user profile.

See Also
       rmm(1mh)

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