Do you mean something like this?
#!/usr/bin/ksh
cat input_file | while read A B C D JUNK; do
if [ "$D" != "auto" ]; then
echo "$A $B $C $D $JUNK" >> error_file
else
echo "$A $B $C $D $JUNK" >> ${C}_AUTO
fi
done
> -----Original Message-----
>
> A developer in our shop would like to read an input file and
> based on some
> field values for each record in the file split them into
> multiple files. The
> output files will be used by a 3rd party package for
> processing. (the package
> does not need the oracle database) For example:
>
> Input File:
> record a: WI auto ...
> record b: WI auto ...
> record c: NY auto ...
> record d: YY home ...
>
>
> Output file WI_AUTO:
> record a: WI auto ...
> record b: WI auto ...
>
> Output file NY_AUTO:
> record c: NY auto ...
>
> Error file:
> record d: YY home ... (no entry in the criteria lookup table
> to pick up this
> record therefore send it to an error file)
>
> Their solution is to load an oracle table with the input
> file. An additional
> table would contain the criteria and the name of the output
> file to write to.
> They would write a procedure to read the criteria and input
> table and utilize
> the utl_file package to create the output files. There may
> be 50+ output files
> initially and likely will grow over time. My gut tells me
> that this does not
> belong in the database, rather we should be able to split the
> file using C or a
> utility such as syncsort (which we do not have). We are
> currently at 8.1.7.4
> on AIX 4.3.3. Is there a more elegant solution and what
> would it be??? Are
> there any open source unix utilities that may help? Thanks
>
>
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