Tracy,
Tell them to type
man awk
Your instinct is right :-).
SF
Tracy Rahmlow wrote:
>
> 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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