Re: Splitting huge XML Files into fixsized wellformed parts

Malapha wrote:

> After having decided to use the fasted way, please let me come back to
> the original problem: I also want to have some logging about the
> shredding-process at runtime, after each chunk is finished, so the
> filesystems filesize after the shredding corresponds with the values
> of the tables attributes in the logfile. Here is my idea:
> 
> logfile = "shredder_log.txt"
> cmd_original_length = "ls -l " FILENAME " | gawk '{print $5;}'"
> cmd_original_length | getline original_size
> cmd_part_length = "ls -l " outfile " | gawk '{print $5;}'"
> cmd_part_length | getline part_size
> print outfile ";" sprintf("%03d", num+1) ";" FILENAME ";" strftime("%m
> %d%Y%H%M%S", systime()) ";" original_size ";" part_size  >> logfile
> 

Does this really have to be logged at runtime? I would do this after the 
splitting is done. Furthermore: "Using getline is almost always the 
wrong approach", to quote one of the regulars in this group. So far, I 
followed this advice and managed to avoid getline constructions in my 
scripts.

Hermann