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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Strip the first record off a file and isolate fields off of it Post 302974247 by gotamp on Thursday 26th of May 2016 10:33:25 PM
Old 05-26-2016
Hi ,

the first portion of your problem seems to be a easy one.
you can use head and tail to extract the required record from the parent file and then redirect to create other files as required.

in current scenario you can do
Code:
head -1 parentfile > firstfile
tail +2 parentfile > secondfile

here, the firstfile would contain the only the header record
[head -1 is first record from top]
and the secondfile would contain all the records except the first one
[tail -1 is the first record from bottom, tail +1 is the all the records from top from 1st record onwards]


And regarding the 2nd issue, as Don has correctly pointed out there is no point in creating env variables, as it does not solve the purpose.
may be we can help better if you clearly mention what exactly is your requirement.

Thanks
Goutam
 

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list - list routines SYNOPSIS
#include <inn/list.h> struct node { struct node *succ; struct node *pred; }; struct list { struct node *head; struct node *tail; struct node *tailpred; }; void list_new(struct list *list); struct node *list_addhead(struct list *list, struct node *node); struct node *list_addtail(struct list *list, struct node *node); struct node *list_head(struct list *list); struct node *list_tail(struct list *list); struct node *list_succ(struct node *node); struct node *list_pred(struct node *node); struct node *list_remhead(struct list *list); struct node *list_remtail(struct list *list); struct node *list_remove(struct node *node); struct node *list_insert(struct list *list, struct node *node, struct node *pred); bool list_isempty(struct list *list); DESCRIPTION
list_new initialises the list header list so as to create an empty list. list_addhead adds node to the head of list, returning the node just added. list_addtail adds node to the tail of list, returning the node just added. list_head returns a pointer to the the node at the head of list or NULL if the list is empty. list_tail returns a pointer to the the node at the tail of list or NULL if the list is empty. list_succ returns the next (successor) node on the list after node or NULL if node was the final node. list_pred returns the previous (predecessor) node on the list before node or NULL if node was the first node. list_remhead removes the first node from list and returns it to the caller. If the list is empty NULL is returned. list_remtail removes the last node from list and returns it to the caller. If the list is empty NULL is returned. list_remove removes node from the list it is on and returns it to the caller. list_insert inserts node onto list after the node pred. If pred is NULL then node is added to the head of list. HISTORY
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