DFILE Tools - Summary
This project is not part of the GNU Project.
Most UNIX distributions contain utilities such as sort and join that are capable of performing typical processing operations on data in sequential files. These utilities are well integrated into UNIX shell environments but lack some desirable features needed in large batch processing applications. Standard UNIX utilities do not allow data field values to be referenced by field name. They require developers to reference data field values by numbers that represent relative field position within records. This makes their use in applications much less maintainable. Most standard UNIX data utilities were initially developed when typical servers had single CPUs. Today, servers commonly have multiple CPUs. To take advantage of new multi-processing environments, features supporting scalable processing should be included in utilities. Finally, records using traditional character delimited fields are inherently inefficient to process. This record format requires every character of data to be examined to identify field delimiters. A more processing efficient record format is needed. DFILE Tools were created to address these issues in batch processing applications on UNIX servers.
Registration Date: Mon 26 Oct 2009 04:01:07 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 4 - Beta


