Help needed - shell scripting

garric · #1 (**permalink**) 05-22-2006

I have a file that has text in the format below

ABC
/ Some text /
ABC
/ Some text /
ABC
/ Some text /
ABC
/ Some text /
ABC
/ Some text /

How can I seperate the text between a pair of 'ABC' into seperate files ???

any information would be of great help. Thanks

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 05-22-2006

Do you mean you want to create a file that is minus all the ABC's?

Code:

grep -v 'ABC' oldfile > newfile

garric · #3 (**permalink**) 05-22-2006

no, if we consider the example ... i want to create five different files with the content of each coming from the text betweeen two consecutive 'ABC's

jim mcnamara · #4 (**permalink**) 05-22-2006

Code:

#/bin/ksh
let filecnt=0
while read record
do
     if [ `echo $record | grep -q '^ABC'` -ne 0 ] ; then
           echo "$record" > newfile"$filecnt"
           let filecnt=$filecnt + 1
     fi
done < oldfile

tayyabq8 · #5 (**permalink**) 05-22-2006

Hi,

Out of interest, is possible to redirect the same output with sed to textfile.$count? using branching (b), hold space or whatsoever is available in sed to output different sections from one file to more than files?

Regards,
Tayyab

garric · #6 (**permalink**) 05-22-2006

Thsi is gave an error, something regarding ' unary operators for -ne'

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