09-28-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by
alister
Did you try vgersh99's suggestion? It should work if, as you said, there are no double quotes.
Another alternative would be to insert a backslash before every quote.
Regards,
Alister
I am in the middle of revising one of the lists. When I am done with that, I will test the modifications suggested by vgersh99. This is the sort of operation where OSs seem to fall very short in terms of providing reasonable tools. I don't know what I would do without scripts. Just try opening a folder in windows when it has 500,000 files in it, let alone trying to pick out a few thousand that you need.
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I tried the suggestion of vgersh99 and it worked fine. I think I need to add stripping out of double quotes if they occur since excel tends to put those in when you save to a text file.
It would also be nice to have a similar script that would rm the file names on a list from a specified directory. I guess it makes sense to stick to the linux tool mentality of one tool per operations instead of trying to make a script that does two different things based on arguments.
LMHmedchem
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