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A "Track Changes" script for data cleaning

By Bob Mesibov 26/03/2015 Tutorials

The complicated-looking script at the end of this article is in two parts. The first part detects the changes made when a data table is edited, and reports the changes as a plain-text logfile. It's a straightforward bit of shell scripting based on the diff command. The second part of the script…

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