On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 5:29 PM David Fleck <dcfl...@protonmail.ch> wrote:
> As Wes said, an example or two would help greatly. > > --- David Fleck > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Monday, August 16th, 2021 at 7:17 PM, wes <p...@the-wes.com> wrote: > > > are firstnames and lastnames always separated by the same character in > each > > > > filename? > > > > are the names separated from the rest of the info in the filename the > same > > > > way for each file? > > > > are you doing this once, or will this be a repeating task that would be > > > > handy to automate? > > > > would you be able to provide a few same filenames, perhaps with the > > > > personal info obfuscated? > > > > generally, the way I would approach this is to pare the filenames down to > > > > the people's names, and then run uniq against that list. uniq -c will > > > > provide a count of how many times a given string appears in the input. if > > > > I'm doing this once, I would generate a text file containing the list of > > > > filenames I will be working with, for example: > > > > find Processed -type f > processed-files.txt > > > > then use a text editor to pare down the entries as described above, using > > > > find and replace functions to remove the extra data, so only the people's > > > > names remain. then simply uniq -c that file and you're done. I personally > > > > use vi for this, but just about any editor will do. I like this approach > > > > for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that I can spot-check > > > > random samples after each editing step to try to spot unexpected results. > > > > if you want to automate this, it may be a little more complicated, and > the > > > > answers to my initial questions become important. if you can provide a > > > > little more context, I will try to help further. > > > > -wes > > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 5:01 PM Michael Barnes barnmich...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > Here's a fun trivia task. For an activity I am involved in, I get files > > > > > > from members to process. The filename starts with the member's name > and has > > > > > > other info to identify the file. After processing, the file goes in the > > > > > > ./Processed folder. There are thousands of files now in that folder. > Right > > > > > > now, I'm looking for a couple basic pieces of information. First, I > want to > > > > > > know how many unique names I have in the list. Second, I'd like a list > of > > > > > > names and how many files go with each name. > > > > > > I'm sure this is trivial, but my mind is blanking out on it. A couple > > > > > > simple examples would be nice. Non-answers, like "easy to do > with'xxx'" or > > > > > > references to man pages or George's Book, etc. are not helpful right > now. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Michael > Actually, they are callsigns instead of names. A couple of examples: w7...@k-0496-20210526.txt wa7...@k-0497-20210714.txt n8...@k-4386-20210725.txt I would like a simple count of the unique callsigns on a random basis and possibly an occasional report listing each callsign and how many files are in the folder for each. Michael
