linux-wannabe
Sorry if this seems easy to some here-but my experiments are not working.
Say I have a file with duplicate records-how can I grep out the occurences of that file into another file. I have tried grep -F -f output original > answer and this fails.
Here is how my original file looks.
A10001,BOXA01
A10002,BOXA01
A10003,BOXA01
A10004,BOXA01
A10001,BOXA01
A10003,BOXA04
the database program I am using will take out duplicates (the first field duplicate), so I will be missing A10001 and A10003 for two labels.
(Audit tapes using a scangun and how do we know if it is a true duplicate tape or a duplicated scan-duplicates only come into play every once in a while-but more times that not when destroying tapes or moving to another location-hence the location of a box#)
I used to do something like this.
cut -c1-6 original > output
uniq -d output > duplicates
grep 'A10001' original
produces the result (output to crt-gave a 0)!!!!
A10001,BOXA01
A10001,BOXA01
or
grep 'A10003' original
A10003,BOXA01
A10003,BOXA03
or use Agent Ransack Windows Gui for free to search folders for containing text=try it MythicSoft...
I actually use berkeley utilities for dos and has uniq, grep, cut, and wc ,etc... but if need be I will try to make another "live-cd" for the road-
but this is not working for a large file of say 1000 duplicates and 10000 in original file to find the duplicates and location I need for auditing purposes-
Is there a way to take my duplicate file "known duplicate volsers" and make a batch command to run thru grep and then
redirection?
For example;
grep 'known duplicate volser' original > output
but have grep take the entire file at one time?
Any suggestions-
Like I said Linux-wannabe-I know a little bit about linux and that 8 bits is a byte.!
But to know how magic works and gcc takes more effort!!
:)