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You do a read a in your shell. Then you use $a in awk, but that won't work because awk knows nothing about shell variables.

When you invoke awk you can however pass variables to it:

awk -v a=$a...

Ftp uses ASCII-transfer mode by default. A zipped tar is binary.
Issue the command 'binary' to tell ftp to treat your upload as such.

When using single quotes, the shell takes your * as a literal value.

So, don't use single quotes. (In this case.)

Next, use cat to conCATenate files:

cat...

The options to your sendmail command are wrong!

Send some emails to yourself using cat <file>|sendmail <options> until you understand how it works.

Do you even have the command 'sendmail' on...

Why not split the whole file in one go? With this line of awk, you split the whole file into files with filenames like 00000000-00001000.exp for the record range below 1000, 00001000-00002000.exp for...

If you want (slash need) to stick to sed and bc, try this:

sed 's/^\(.*:\)\([0-9]*\),*\([0-9]*\):\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\)/print \"\1\2,\3:\4,\5:\",\4\.\5-\2\.\3,\"\n\"/' beurs.txt|bc|sed...

To be honest, I've hardly ever worked with bc before. I just took a glimpse at the man page and came up with this idea. Since we are mixing strings and expressions, the print command seemed the way...