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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Split text file Post 302489726 by methyl on Friday 21st of January 2011 11:49:34 AM
Old 01-21-2011
Please post some sample data, making it clear what the field delimited is and how many columns there are.

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the 1st one having columns 1, 2 ,3,4 , the second one having columns 1,2,8,9 etc.
I can't see the progression here. Can you list all six selections?


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flow-split

flow-split(1)						      General Commands Manual						     flow-split(1)

NAME

       flow-split -- Split flow files into smaller files.

SYNOPSIS

       flow-split [-gGhn]  [-b big|little]  [-C comment]  [-d debug_level]  [-N nflows]  [-o outfile_basename]	[-T nseconds]  [-z z_level]

DESCRIPTION

       The flow-split utility will split a flow file into smaller files based on the the number of flows or the ammount of time that has passed.

OPTIONS

       -b big|little
		 Byte order of output.

       -C Comment
		 Add a comment.

       -d debug_level
		 Enable debugging.

       -g	 Split on source tag.

       -G	 Split on destination tag.

       -h	 Display help.

       -n	 Use symbols for tag field in filename.

       -N nflows Split after processing nflows.

       -o outfile_basename
		 The basename of the resulting files.

       -T nsecond
		 Split after processing an interval of nseconds flows.

       -z z_level
		 Configure compression level to  z_level.  0 is disabled (no compression), 9 is highest compression.

EXAMPLES

       Create 1 minute flow files from the flow archive in /flows/krc4.  Store the results in /flows/krc4.split

	 flow-cat /flows/krc4 | flow-split -T60 -o /flows/krc4.split/1min.

BUGS

       None known.

AUTHOR

       Mark Fullmer maf@splintered.net

SEE ALSO

       flow-tools(1)

																     flow-split(1)
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