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Thank you both, much appreciated.
awk '/STOP HERE/ {FN="XX"; next} {print > FN}' FN="YY" file

Please could you explain the actions? FN, I can't seem to find that as an awk variable. Please...

Unfortunately I didn't even know where to start. I was reading up on egrep and I've been having a look at sed as you suggested. If you could throw some more light, I'd appreciate it.

thank you

Hi,
I have a file which I need to programmatically split into two files.

All the information in the file before pattern "STOP HERE" is to be stripped and output into one file while everything...

Hi Don,
The point you made about portability of "\c" is interesting. How do I get the cursor to go on to the next line i.e. what is the replacement for "\c" when I use printf?
I have indeed...

Wow!!! Thank you all again! I hadn't realised there were responses waiting for me, I was busy trying various other options.

You were all correct i.e. bits from each suggestion put together seem...

hi,
Are there any more suggestions to the problem I logged please? I have tried both the suggestions above but neither was successful. The programming still does not return to the calling script.
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wow!! You guys are great! thank you for both suggestions, I will try both and let you know how it goes.

thanks again.
PTL

Hi,
I need to edit a shell script which is calling another shell script. At the moment the program returns to the command prompt after executing each called script. I need to change it to make it...