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Hi everyone,

I am trying to write an if statement that will split a file if it is over 1 million records/lines into files with say 900,000 records and then rename
those files without the aaa, aab, aac format that splitting normally does and into a specific naming convention. For instance, if my file was named Test.File.txt and looked like the following:

Code:

Todd
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Jim
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
Scott
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29

I would want to split the file so that there would be 3 files (imagine each name represents 900,000 records) and they would be named Test.A1File.txt, Test.A2File.txt, Test.A3File.txt.

Thanks.

Assuming ALL the records under Scott, Jim, Paul, And Fluffy and so on really do start with a numeric character:

Code:

awk ' { if ($0~ /^[A-Z]/) { 
             cnt++; file=sprintf("TestA%dFile.txt", cnt) 
          }
          print $0> file} ' inputfile

What about if the file was all names instead of numbers?