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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to compare data in two flat files and update them? Post 88452 by Abhishek Ghose on Friday 4th of November 2005 06:51:16 AM
Old 11-04-2005
Not very sure on the requirement but have you tried the UNIX 'join' command?
 

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join(1T)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							  join(1T)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME
join - Create a string by joining together list elements SYNOPSIS
join list ?joinString? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
The list argument must be a valid Tcl list. This command returns the string formed by joining all of the elements of list together with joinString separating each adjacent pair of elements. The joinString argument defaults to a space character. EXAMPLES
Making a comma-separated list: set data {1 2 3 4 5} join $data ", " => 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Using join to flatten a list by a single level: set data {1 {2 3} 4 {5 {6 7} 8}} join $data => 1 2 3 4 5 {6 7} 8 SEE ALSO
list(1T), lappend(1T), split(1T) KEYWORDS
element, join, list, separator ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl join(1T)
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