[Lexicog] Shoebox merge and remove duplicates

[Martin Hosken]

Dear Wayne,
> I'm back on the Cheyenne reservation for a week of language work. Somehow, 
> in the process of creating a smaller database for a school program, I lost 
> track of my complete database with its latest edits. So I have now made many 
> changes to a slightly smaller version of the complete database. I still have 
> the complete database but it is not not up-to-date with changes made this 
> week.
>
> Is there to automate a process of merging my current database with the 
> older, larger one and end up with a new database which has all and only the 
> database records I want? I don't want to manually delete duplicate entries. 
> I've done that before and it's too much work with the size of my database 
> now.
>
> I am willing to do a visual check using some compare-files software, if I 
> can compare differences between two Shoebox databases. But the more 
> automated the process can be, without losing data, the better.
>   

Assuming you have no multiple entries in your database, there is a
program that is part of SHUtils that should help you. It's called shadd
SHUtils is available from http://scripts.sil.org/SHUtils-manual

GB,
Martin



 
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