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Ah ha, that works. Thank you, jp!

I really don't know what's left to try then.. for another test, I used terminal, executed a touch command to create split2.awk and then used TextEdit to retype the code character by character with no...

Here's the exact contents of my file if you want to take a look:
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I still feel like I may be doing something wrong.
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Ah, I see the issue. If I test with the sample XML I provided in the original post, it works. But it's when I try to execute it on the actual XML export from FileMaker that it fails and just stops...

The terminal prints out the following:
awk: can't open file split.awk
source line number 1 source file split.awk
context is
>>> <<<
Do I need to put in a full file path? I've already...

Sorry I'm a complete AWK beginner, I've been programming for about 8 years, but only learned of AWK about an hour before I posted.

Let me make sure I understand everything completely, this is...

Thanks for the quick reply, when I try those:

awk '/<METADATA>/ {
getline
while ( $0 !~ /<\/METADATA>/ ) {
print > "fields.xml"
getline
...

I have a 500 MB XML file from a FileMaker database export, it's formatted horribly (no line breaks at all). The node structure is basically


<FMPXMLRESULT>
<METADATA>
<FIELD...