The windows J distribution includes unzip.exe in ~system/tools. Is this not
adequate and easy to apply with one of the task utilities (which in unix
wrap 2!:0 and in windows wrap an equivalent)?

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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