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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Split file based on records Post 302831863 by rajamadhavan on Friday 12th of July 2013 05:12:28 AM
Old 07-12-2013
^ is the regex indicating the beginning of the line.

This will change the prefix from 'x' to 'test'. As far as I know, you can only change the prefix and not the suffix. So the split files will be testaa, testab and so on

Code:
sed -n /^D/p file | split -l2 - test

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

tiffsplit

tiffsplit(1)							   User Commands						      tiffsplit(1)

NAME

       tiffsplit - split a multi-image TIFF into single-image TIFF files

SYNOPSIS

       tiffsplit src.tif [prefix]

DESCRIPTION

       tiffsplit splits a multi-directory (page) TIFF file to create one or more single-directory (page) TIFF files. The output filenames are cre-
       ated by concatenating a prefix, a lexically ordered suffix in the range [aa-zz], and the suffix .tif. For example, xaa.tif,  xab.tif,  ...,
       xzz.tif. If a prefix is not specified on the command line, the default prefix x is used.

OPTIONS

       None

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       src.tif	       The name of the input file.

       prefix	       The prefix used to create the output filenames.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWTiff			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

	tiffinfo(1), tiffcp(1), libtiff(3)

NOTES

       Only a select set of "known tags" is copied when splitting.

       Updated by Breda McColgan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    26 Mar 2004 						      tiffsplit(1)
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