Hi All,

I have a text file which is currently formatted like this:

Code:

TEXT1

***

TEXT2

***

TEXT3

***

I want text before *** to go into separate files. For example,
1.dat

Code:

TEXT1

2.dat

Code:

TEXT2

3.dat

Code:

TEXT3

This is what I am doing but my code does not separate texts, rather it again places the entire text from the original file in another file 1.dat

Code:

awk 'BEGIN{RS="";FS="***"} {c++;f=c".dat"; printf("%s\n",$0) >> f}' file.txt

I also tried this but does not work as desired:

Code:

awk '/***/{close(c++".dat")}{print > c".dat"}' file.txt

I am using Linux with bash.