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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Conditional awk Post 302833563 by Corona688 on Wednesday 17th of July 2013 11:31:22 AM
Old 07-17-2013
Yes, if(length($1) == 2) { ... } ought to work.

awk is designed to process big flatfiles, it should do well here. Thousands of files of thousands of lines comes to millions of lines, which is not unfeasible.

There's always ways to make things faster, of course. Will you be doing lots of things like
Code:
awk '{...}' file1 file2 > output
awk '{...}' file1 file3 >> output
awk '{...}' file1 file4 >> output

If so, you could do awk '{...}' file1 file2 file3 file4 ... > output
...which would save a lot of time since file1 wouldn't need to be read thousands of times, just once.

If you need different files for each one that's still possible, but would need changes to the code.
Last edited by Corona688; 07-17-2013 at 12:37 PM..
 

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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