An awk script may be useful. There is a special variable "RS", Record Separator, that may be be set to read "paragraphs", i.e. groups of lines separated by an empty line:
That would allow you to treat your file as essentially just a number of such records.
With your calculated knowledge of where you want to the split to be, the "pattern" part of an awk statement:
should allow you to complete the solution with the use of another builtin variable "NR", Number of Record. This is because the pattern part may be a logical expression, such as:
the action might be something as simple as print ... cheers, drl
I have a file that I want to split in 2 (with Bourne shell sh) preferably. The file consists of groups of lines separated by newline. The file can vary in length, so I need to check number of groups of text. Here's an example
====EXAMPLE START====
#fruit banana
#color yellow
#surface smooth... (0 Replies)
I have gone through all the threads in the forum and tested out different things. I am trying to split a 3GB file into multiple files. Some files are even larger than this.
For example:
split -l 3000000 filename.txt
This is very slow and it splits the file with 3 million records in each... (10 Replies)
I need help in forming a script to copy files from one location which has a sub directory structure to another location with similar sub directory structure,
say location 1,
/home/rick/tmp_files/1-12/00-25/
here 1-12 are the number of sub directories under tmp_files and 00-25 are sub... (1 Reply)
Hi all
I need to copy the entire contents of one file into an existing file at a specific location. I know the exact line number where I need to put it. It appears I would use either sed or awk to do this, but I have been unsuccessful so far:
File A
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
... (6 Replies)
Create a script that copies files from one specified directory to another specified directory, in the order they were created in the original directory between specified times. Copy the files at a specified interval. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am logging to a linux server through a user "user1" in /home directory.
There is a script in a directory in 'root' for which all permissions are available including the directory. This script when executed creates a file in the directory.
When the script is added to crontab, on... (1 Reply)
I have file file1.txt in location 'loc1'. Now i want a copy of this file in location 'loc2' with a new file called test.txt.
Please help me how to do this in shell script. (1 Reply)
Hi
This is my third past and very impressed with previous post replies
Hoping the same for below query
How to find a existing file location and directory location in solaris box (1 Reply)
A) I would like to achive following actions using shell script. can someone help me with writing the shell script
1) Go to some dir ( say /xyz/logs ) and then perform find operation in this dir and list of subdir using
find . -name "*" -print | xargs grep -li 1367A49001CP0162 >... (1 Reply)