Based on the stuff you attached, your files are using Mac OS <= 9
newline conventions - bare carriage returns, no linefeeds. So the
UNIX commands see each of them as consisting of one giant line, and
since they do the comparisons on a line-by-line basis, they wind up
not doing anything at all.
Hi mark, This looked a very simple solution and fast also, but the output
still generates doubles...
This is what I have:
set a to
"BELMAC19X:Users:jbultere:Desktop:All_images:compiled:all_images_belflow"
set b to
"BELMAC19X:Users:jbultere:Desktop:All_images:compiled:all_images_deuflow"
set comp to
"BELMAC19X:Users:jbultere:Desktop:All_images:compiled:all_images_compiled"
tell application "Finder"
do shell script "sort -u " & (quoted form of POSIX path of a) & " " &
(quoted form of POSIX path of b) & ">" & (quoted form of POSIX path of comp)
end tell
Please look at result: (example)
3M RD
UK_99993_MG21WAREHOUSE1
Are still double....
Maybe it's because they are pretty big?
Many thanks,
Jan
> From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:37:35 -0500
> To: Jan Bultereys <email@hidden>
> Cc: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Merge all names into 1 file
>
> On 11/6/06, Jan Bultereys <email@hidden> wrote:
>> I have 7 text files
>> ....
>>
>> Is it possible to merge the 7 files into ONE where all the "duplicated"
>> names are merged into one.
>
> Sure.
>
> do shell script "sort -u " & (quoted form of POSIX path of file1) & "
> " & (quoted form of POSIX path of file2) & " " & ... & " " & (quoted
> form of POSIX path of file7) & ">" & (quoted form of POSIX path of
> resultFile)
>
> if you have the filenames in a list you can of course build the
> command string up with a loop, which would be less unwieldy (more
> wieldy?). If you really want 'all the files in this folder' then that
> would be a better way to approach it, too. The important thing is
> that you wind up with a shell command that consists of "sort -u "
> followed by the quoted POSIX paths of all the files, separated by
> spaces, followed by ">" and the quoted POSIX path of the file you want
> the sorted uniquified results to go into.
>
>
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
