Here is some J code that should give you the list of LOG files in the
directory tree.
   ; (<empty'') -.~ (1 dir ,&'/LOG') each dirpath 'jsource'

Next step to unzip. On Windows I'd imagine that 7z should handle gzip OK.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>> >
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