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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read n lines from a text files getting n from within the text file Post 302853275 by Don Cragun on Friday 13th of September 2013 02:50:46 PM
Old 09-13-2013
I repeat: "Note that there are only 14 lines following the 1st line, but the 1st line contains #data: 15 ;". The script you're using assumes that the 15 in the 1st line of your input file is correct and your output is wrong because that 15 should be 14 for the data in your input file.

If your input data is invalid, you will not get valid output. Or more commonly: GIGO (Garbage in; garbage out).

You can get the output you said want from that input with the following awk script (although I STRONGLY suggest that you not put a space in your filenames):
Code:
awk '
$1 == ">" {
        if(f) close(f)
        f="file " ++n
        next
}
{       print > f
}' UNZA2250.txt

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       trbdf  is a program for translation of BDF fonts from one encoding to other.  One exciting feature of trbdf is that it tries to approximate
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