I have million's of records each containing exactly 50 characters and have to check the uniqueness of 4 character substring of 50 character (postion known prior) and report if any duplicates are found.
Eg. data...
AAAA00000000000000XXXX0000 0000000000... upto50 chars
AAAA00000000000000XXXY0000 0000000000... upto50 chars
AAAA00000000000000XXXY0000 0000000000... upto50 chars
output:
Duplicates are found for XXXY.
I'm new to unix scripting. Can anyone provide me direction?
~GAP