Hi Tony, This is a perfect job for awk - as you kind of already noticed. The following awk script will do it: ------------------cut------------------- #!/bin/awk -f BEGIN { FS="|"; print "UserId\t\tOccurences (YES)"; print "======\t\t==============="; } { if ($5 == "YES") { hits[$2]++; } } END { for (i in hits) { print i "\t" hits[i]; } } ------------------cut------------------- Save the script above as "glue.awk" and run it with the following command: awk -f glue.awk raw_files Example: $ awk -f glue.awk raw_files UserId Occurences (YES) ====== =============== 123456780 1 123456783 3 Regards Michael Pedersen PLUSPEOPLE Tony Likhanga wrote:

Hi folks,

I have tonnes of CSV files whose sample content is as shown below:

Choice|*123456780*|20|1|*YES*|Y|2010-02-26 10:42:51.239772| Choice|*123456781*|10|1|NO|Y|2010-02-26 12:42:51.243603| Choice|*123456782*|20|1|NA|Y|2010-02-26 14:42:51.247464| Choice|*123456783*|10|1|*YES*|Y|2010-02-26 14:42:51.251320| Choice|*123456780*|20|1|OK|Y|2010-02-26 15:42:51.255169|

My aim is to extract the contents of the 2nd field alongside the count of similar choice result in 5th field.

Desired output:

UserId Occurences (*YES*) ====== =============== 123456780 465 123456781 25

I managed to achieve this on a linux box running mysql using the steps below (which can of course be wrapped into a script):

1. grep YES /raw_files/ | awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"}{print $2}' > /tmp/in_file 2. Log in to mysql and perform the steps: 3. mysql> create table nums(num varchar(16)); 4. mysql> load data infile '/tmp/in_file' into table nums(num); 5. mysql> select num,count(*) thecnt from nums group by num;

I'm still exploring how to achieve the same using some (simple?) script, possibly not involving the database bit. Any takers? NB: The only bit we know before-hand is desired choice result (YES/NO/NA).

Thanks. Tony.