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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users extract multiple sections of a file Post 302176662 by ShawnMilo on Tuesday 18th of March 2008 08:40:39 PM
Old 03-18-2008
It turns out that split magically solves your problem.

Code:
split -p '^ST' temp.txt

(Read "man split" for details.)

ShawnMilo
 

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