This proposal is nice and short and solves the problem, but in case (large chunks of) the input file is sorted, it performs too many unnecessary file open/close operations. Try a small adaption:
Code:
awk '
NF {TMP=substr($1,1,1)".txt"
if (FN && FN != TMP) close (FN)
FN=TMP
print >> FN
}
' file
Thanks..It worked like a magic
Could you please explain the logic as well? I never used FN in awk so it will be a learning for me.
Last edited by shekhar_4_u; 07-26-2015 at 01:17 AM..
Hi,
I trying to find the solution for writing the programming in unix by shell programming for sorting thr string in alphabetical order.
I getting diffculty in that ,, so i want to find out the solution for that
Please do needful
Thanks
Bhagyesh (1 Reply)
Hello,
Each record has a lenght of 7 characters
I have 2 types of records 010 and 011
There is no character of end of line.
For example my file is like that :
010hello 010bonjour011both 011sisters
I would like to have 2 files
010.txt (2 records)
hello
bonjour
and
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shtool-table
SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-table - GNU shtool pretty-print a field-separated list
SYNOPSIS
shtool table [-F|--field-sep sep] [-w|--width width] [-c|--columns cols] [-s|--strip strip] strsepstr...
DESCRIPTION
This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-F, --field-sep sep
Separate columns using sep. Default is ":".
-w, --width width
Width of each column. Default is 15 characters.
-c, --columns cols
Number of columns. Default is 3.
-s, --strip strip
Strip off any characters past strip. Default is 79.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool table -F , -w 5 -c 4 "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12"
HISTORY
The GNU shtool table command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), tr(1), fmt(1), sh(1), awk(1), sed(1).
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