I was assuming I would do the job in J, but a comparison between the J approach and a shell script or other scheme, would be enlightening. My files and the 6.02 J interpreter are on a Win7 64-bit machine with 4 gig of ram.
Skip On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]>wrote: > If done in J it would be done essentially identically on all platforms. The > only little bit of host dependency would be calling unzip and I'm sure > forum members could help make that easy. > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2011/11/03 17:50 , Skip Cave wrote: > > > I have several thousand files which are distributed into about a > thousand > > > folders. All of the folders are contained in one directory on my > machine. > > > Each of the thousand folders contains 1-10 files. All of the files in > > each > > > folder have been compressed using the gzip program. I need to sequence > > > through all of the folders, find the file in each folder labeled "LOG" > > > (there will be only one in each folder, with no extension), and expand > > it. > > > I then need to examine the expanded LOG file (ASCII text file) and > search > > > the LOG file for a specific unique text string that will be the same in > > all > > > the LOG files. I need to extract the string of a few hundred characters > > > that *follows* the initial matched string in the LOG file. That second > > > string will be terminated by another (different& third) unique text > > string > > > which will also be the same in all LOG files. I want to place all of > the > > > extracted strings into a single boxed array using a single J function. > > > > > > How hard is it to do this in J? Can someone give me a start in the > right > > > direction, perhaps with some example code? I currently only have J 6.02 > > on > > > my machine. > > > > > What environment? If Linux or OSX, it's my kind of thing (seems quite > > reasonable, and I could have a go at providing example code) - but I > > have no knowledge of how to approach it in Windows.... > > > > - joey > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Skip Cave Cave Consulting LLC Phone: 214-460-4861 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
