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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Incredibly inefficient cat | grep script Post 302913154 by Cludgie on Thursday 14th of August 2014 05:50:28 AM
Old 08-14-2014
@achenle - The smaller reference file contains the 12 digit numeric reference for every active subscriber we have (format=000000000000). The much larger production file contains the 12 digit reference and an alphanumeric tariff code separated by a coma. Tariff codes have the following A000000 or AA00000 or A000000-AA00000 or AA00000-AA00000. The longer tariff codes indicate an additional service or add-on. So the format is 000000000000,A000000 or any other tariff/add-on variant

My aim is to extract the reference and tariff info from the production file, using the references contained in the accurate list.

@corona688 - The output of should be the same format as the production file which is reference,tariff ie 000000000000,AA00000. I don't think sorting is an issue at this point.

Guys thanks very much, I'll give it a go.
 

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