03-26-2014
Thanks for all the suggestions. My workaround so far has been to skip the duplicate line removal and add it to the querries I run against the database instead. This has allowed me to procede with my analysis.
I will go back and fix the database at some point however when the current deadline passes.
I will have to check closely which fields alone can indicate a duplicate record. Since the addition of a column (and therefore the length of $0) is what broke it, taking something out may help. I'm not sure as I am already taking the important columns from two types of database files and the "housekeeping columns" are not included.
Is there a way to do a checksum or fairly robust hash in awk? That might be the best way to shorten the array names which appears to what is killing awk.
Mike
PS. I would love to be using real Linux instead of Cygwin (as I do at home). Unfortunately that is a boundary condition.
Last edited by Michael Stora; 03-26-2014 at 08:03 PM..
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lam -- laminate files
SYNOPSIS
lam [-f min.max] [-s sepstring] [-t c] file ...
lam [-p min.max] [-s sepstring] [-t c] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The lam utility copies the named files side by side onto the standard output. The n-th input lines from the input files are considered frag-
ments of the single long n-th output line into which they are assembled. The name `-' means the standard input, and may be repeated.
Normally, each option affects only the file after it. If the option letter is capitalized it affects all subsequent files until it appears
again uncapitalized. The options are described below:
-f min.max
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adjusted within the field.
-p min.max
Like -f, but pad this file's field when end-of-file is reached and other files are still active.
-s sepstring
Print sepstring before printing line fragments from the next file. This option may appear after the last file.
-t c The input line terminator is c instead of a newline. The newline normally appended to each output line is omitted.
To print files simultaneously for easy viewing use pr(1).
EXAMPLES
The command
lam file1 file2 file3 file4
joins 4 files together along each line. To merge the lines from four different files use
lam file1 -S "
" file2 file3 file4
Every 2 lines of a file may be joined on one line with
lam - - < file
and a form letter with substitutions keyed by `@' can be done with
lam -t @ letter changes
SEE ALSO
join(1), paste(1), pr(1), printf(3)
STANDARDS
Some of the functionality of lam is standardized as the paste(1) utility by IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'').
HISTORY
The lam utility first appeared in 4.2BSD.
BUGS
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BSD
August 12, 2004 BSD