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Old 01-03-2013
Running C++ like shell script

i found the following code off the web. its suppose to read large log files, efficiently. but i dont have an idea of how to run it. i know its C and you need to "compile". how do i compile it? and is it really necessary to compile?

Code:
/*
** File FILE_3.C
**
** Illustrates how to read from a file.
**
** The file is opened for reading.  Each line is successively fetched
** using fgets command.  The string is then converted to a long integer.
**
** Note that fgets returns NULL when there are no more lines in the file.
**
** In this example file ELAPSED.DTA consists of various elapsed times in
** seconds.  This may have been the result of logging the time  of events
** using an elapsed time counter which increments each second from the
** time the data logger was placed in service.
**
** Typical data in elapsed.dta might be;
**
** 65
** 142
** 1045
** 60493
** 124567
**
**
** Peter H. Anderson, 4 April, '97
*/

#include <stdio.h>   /* required for file operations */
#include <conio.h>  /* for clrscr */
#include <dos.h>  /* for delay */

FILE *fr;            /* declare the file pointer */

main()

{
   int n;
   long elapsed_seconds;
   char line[80];
   clrscr();

   fr = fopen ("elapsed.dta", "rt");  /* open the file for reading */
   /* elapsed.dta is the name of the file */
   /* "rt" means open the file for reading text */

   while(fgets(line, 80, fr) != NULL)
   {
	 /* get a line, up to 80 chars from fr.  done if NULL */
	 sscanf (line, "%ld", &elapsed_seconds);
	 /* convert the string to a long int */
	 printf ("%ld\n", elapsed_seconds);
   }
   fclose(fr);  /* close the file prior to exiting the routine */
} /*of main*/


i would think a code like this can be saved in a file called code.sh. and just run from the command line like this:
Code:
./code.sh filename

but of course, that may be wishful thinking.
# 2  
Old 01-03-2013
1. Save the C code in say test.c
2. Compile it using cc test.c
3. Compiler would most probably have generated an object file - a.out
4. Run it - ./a.out

Also I would consider a simple bash or awk script. You might want to read this short humour :-)
# 3  
Old 01-03-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by balajesuri
1. Save the C code in say test.c
2. Compile it using cc test.c
3. Compiler would most probably have generated an object file - a.out
4. Run it - ./a.out

Also I would consider a simple bash or awk script. You might want to read this short humour :-)
very nice. the only reason im contemplating C is because i've searched for far too long and i've not been able to find a way to read large log files that are gigabytes in size.

today was the last straw. i had to get information from a 8GB file. but the egrep/sed/awk ran for well over 25 minutes before I Control-Ced out of it.

there's goto be a better way to this and i'm praying you guys on here know of it lol
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