Re: creating an index of files contents

Dear Sergio,

I'd traverse the dirs by means of a glob and build the following two =
hashes

%content
with the dirs $dir as keys and a reference to an array or hash of the =
numbers contained in any file of $dir; in case you cannot guarantee that =
any number occurs only once I would opt for the hash as this would allow =
to (1) count the occurances for each number as the hash value and (2) =
retrieve a list of the distinct numbers by calling the keys builtin on the =
hash.=20

%index=20
with the numbers $number as keys and a reference to an array of the dirs =
containing a file that contains $number.

Hope this helps
Mathias


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>>> On Freitag, 23. September 2016 at 08:48, Sergio Letuche
<[email protected]> wrote:
> hello community,
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> Say we have the following structure in our filesystem:
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> dir1
> dir2
> dir3
> dir4
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> dir stands for directory of course.
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> In dir1, there is a file1.txt that has in it numbers, like below
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> 6576576  898798789  5645436549  76567576576  876876876876
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> Same goes for dir2. In dir2, there is a file2.txt, that has in it =
numbers,
> like below
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> 6576576  89879878963  56454365492  765675765763  8768768768765
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> And so with all the rest of the folders.
> What we need to do, is have a new file (like an index) out of all
> directories and files values, like below:
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> dir1;6576576,898798789,5645436549,76567576576,876876876876
> dir2;6576576,89879878963,56454365492,765675765763,8768768768765
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> And secondly, another index file, which will have the reverse info
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> 6576576;dir1,dir2
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> Any ideas on how would you approach this?
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> Best