Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Looking for a new 'join' command Message-ID: <1265@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 3 Jun 91 14:10:14 GMT References: Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 30 In article clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon) writes: > > Hello world. I'm looking for a newer, better join command designed >towards concatenating large numbers of large files. My specific >application is UUCP maps if that gives anyone any understanding. I've seen >references to using > > join #? as map Didn't try, but perhaps the 2.0 version of join does already that. >The script I use now does something like > >.key >join map as map2 >copy map2 map >delete map2 1. It should be faster to change the last two lines to avoid the copy: delete map rename map2 as map 2. Perhaps you could add a little intelligence that this script always takes more than 1 file to add to the file map. In the simplest approach you could perhaps always join 6 (or 10) files together and fall back to the one-file method only for the very last one(s). -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk