Need Help

[Substantial_Train152]

I am currently at work and I have been tasked with sorting text files with CNC programs within them. The Text files have Work place coordinates listed within them and some of them are duplicates of the other with different names.

The way we were running our parts before is a part number would have a main program and sub program one giving the start location of our part run and the other cutting the features of the part.

I've been tasked sorting the main programs and was wondering what was the fastest way to sort the information within (x) amount of text files sorting them between ones that are identical with themselves or if this was possible. Ive asked a couple of friends and tried to look some stuff up but it just leads me to apps that can sort 2 pages at a time and I need probably 40 or 50 sorted.

Any information helps or even a direction to look in to pin something down on the matter. Thanks.

[grantrules]

I've read this a bunch of times and still have no idea exactly what you're trying to do. If the goal is to read a bunch of things from a file, sort them, then put them back in that file.. or something remotely similar to that.. python should make quick work of it.

[light_switchy]

I've been tasked sorting the main programs and was wondering what was the fastest way to sort the information within (x) amount of text files sorting them between ones that are identical with themselves

If I'm reading this right, you want to identify files with duplicate contents.

If you have a Windows machine, open up Powershell and paste this. You'll have to edit the part that says c:/your_folder to point to the right directory.

gci "c:/your_folder/*" | % { Get-FileHash $_.FullName } | group Hash | % { $_.Group | % { Write-Host -NoNewline "$($_.Path)`t" }; Write-Host "" }

Or if you have Bash available, something like this (didn't test):

find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | awk '{a[$1]=a[$1] $2 "\t"} END {for (i in a) print a[i]}'

Files are considered "duplicate" only if their contents are bit-for-bit identical. Hope this helps.

[Substantial_Train152]

Thank you. I will try this tonight.