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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Splitting a delimited text file Post 302899079 by Don Cragun on Saturday 26th of April 2014 01:34:33 AM
Old 04-26-2014
I forgot to mention that the standards specify that the first character in the awk variable RS is used as the record separator. If RS contains more than one character, the standards explicitly state that the behavior is unspecified. (It appears that the awk on jethro's system treats RS as an ERE while the awk on OS X only uses the first character of RS.)
Last edited by Don Cragun; 04-26-2014 at 02:37 AM.. Reason: Fix typo.
 

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split

split(1)						      General Commands Manual							  split(1)

NAME

       split - split a file into pieces

SYNOPSIS

       line_count] suffix_length] [file [name]]

       nsuffix_length] [file [name]]

   Obsolescent
       n] [file [name]]

DESCRIPTION

       reads  file  and  writes  it  in  pieces  (default  1000 lines) onto a set of output files.  The name of the first output file is name with
       appended, and so on lexicographically, up to (only ASCII letters are used, a maximum of 676 files).  If no output name  is  given,  is  the
       default.

       If no input file is given, or if is given instead, the standard input file is used.

   Options
       recognizes the following command-line options and arguments:

	      The input file is split into pieces
			     line_count lines in size.

	      suffix_length  letters  are  used  to  form the suffix of the output filenames.  This option allows creation of more than 676 output
			     files.  The output file names created cannot exceed the maximum file name length allowed in the directory	containing
			     the files.

	      The input file is split into pieces
			     n bytes in size.

	      The input file is split into pieces
			     n x 1024 bytes in size.  No space separates the n from the

	      The input file is split into pieces
			     n x 1048576 bytes in size.  No space separates the n from the

	      The input file is split into pieces
			     n lines in size.  This option is obsolescent and is equivalent to using the option.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

   Environment Variables
       determines the locale for the interpretation of text as single- and/or multi-byte characters.

       determines the language in which messages are displayed.

       If  or  is  not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default for each unspecified or empty
       variable.  If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of

       If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are  set  to	"C".   See
       environ(5).

   International Code Set Support
       Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

SEE ALSO

       csplit(1).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

																	  split(1)
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