merging 2 files

[Dan Kogai]

In article <757 at sagpd1.UUCP> jharkins at sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes:

In article <757 at sagpd1.UUCP> you write:
>I need to change a lot of words with mixed upper and lower case letters into
>words of all lower case letters, from there I'm going to make a sed script
>to actually modify the words in our source.  So how do I make my list?
>For example, I want to convert the list
>
>FooBar			
>blaTZ
>GRMblE
>WhEe
>
>into
>
>FooBar	foobar			
>blaTZ	blatz
>GRMblE	grmble
>WhEe	whee
>
>(from this second list it's trivial to create lines of sed commands like
>'/FooBar/foobar/g', and there are around 800 words in my list)
>
>Right now I have 2 files, one with the upper/lower case names, the second
>with just lower case names.  I think I've been going down the wrong path
>here though.  I'm now thinking of using sed directly but I'm no sed wizard.
>Join may also do the job but I'm having trouble deciphering the man page
>and none of my experiments to date have remotely resembled what I'm after.
>
>So, has anyone got any advice (outside of having a flunky use vi :-)?
>Thanks in advance.

	Just write eine kline C code like the following:
/*
 * mergeline.c
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

main(int argc, char **argv){
	FILE *file1, *file2;
	char buf1[1024], buf2[1024]
	if (argc != 3){	/* error */
		fprintf(stderr "%s:usage: %s file1 file2\n", argv[0], argv[0]);
		exit(1);
	}
	file1 = fopen(argv[1], "r"), file2 = fropen(argv[2], "r");
	if (!file1){
		fprintf(stderr "%s: couldn't open file: %s", argv[0], argv[1]);
		exit(1);
	}
	if (!file2){
		fprintf(stderr "%s: couldn't open file: %s", argv[0], argv[2]);
        exit(1);
    }
	while (fgets(buf1, 1024, stdin) && fgets(buf2, 1024, stdout)){
		/* strtok is necessary to get rid of NL fgets gives ya! */
		printf("%s\t%s\n", strtok(buf1,'\n'), strtok(buf2, '\n'));
	}
}
/* That's it! */

	And you compile the program and give such name as "merge", then run
merge file1, file2.  I chose tab to separate 2 entries but you can
modify my program or same thing could be done via sed|awk|etc.
Maybe I shoul've suggested using perl but I'm not perl expert and
c looked much easier.  Good luck.

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