[Classiccity-pm] basic idiot question

Jeff Scarbrough rail at uga.edu
Sat Oct 25 15:26:30 CDT 2003


At 10:15 AM 10/25/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> > >
> > > > Today's project is a little more complicated:  I have two or three 
> similar
> > > > data files from different instruments, and I need to read them all 
> in and
> > > > output a file where the times recorded in each line match.  It's
> >
> > Output file will contain DOY, then data1 through status for each file.
> >
>
>To make your life easier (assuming I'm understanding your needs
>correctly), you could cat them all into one file and then run sort on
>them, which should put everything in consecutive order, then All you need
>to do is have your perl script just insert empty values where needed and
>do any other post processing.

All of the data from the various files for a given minute needs to be on 
one line...I'm not sure if cat and sort could do that - could it?

Thanks,
Jeff





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