> Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask, but I am trying to do on my linux desktop what I used to do with some other os software.
> I'm trying to use a combination of some bash scripts and some perl to generate reports from a couple of ascii files. Eventually these will run on a server and get the files by ftp, analyse them and mail me the results.
> As I'm no programmer (by any stretch of the imagination !) I'm getting a bit lost.
> I can deal with single files (eventually) using grep, egrep, awk, and a nice perl script called 'total' which i found while googling.
> Problem now is that the data I'm trying to report on is split between two isam files.
> Docket Number, Line Number, Item, quantity, price, duedate
> Docket Number, Customer, Shipping date, invoice number.
> To make some sense of the data, I need to relate the Docket number between the 2 files, so that I can generate a report by customer.
> My first reaction is to look at mysql, and import the ascii data into 2 tables so that I can use sql queries.
> Is this the way to go, or should I delve a bit deeper into perl ?

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