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# 8  
Old 09-17-2009
Hi Franklin,

Thank you. But i cant understand the procedure how this command gives the output Smilie.

once the string "STARTUP NOMOUNT" matches from the input file i value will get increased to 1. After that how its printing the next lines upto the next match.

That is how this command prints the 2,3 lines also in file_1 file(output file)
Please explain

Example for the input file:
-------------------------
STARTUP NOMOUNT
test_file
text
STARTUP NOMOUNT

Thanks in advance,
# 9  
Old 09-17-2009
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Originally Posted by puni
Hi Franklin,

Thank you. But i cant understand the procedure how this command gives the output Smilie.

once the string "STARTUP NOMOUNT" matches from the input file i value will get increased to 1. After that how its printing the next lines upto the next match.

That is how this command prints the 2,3 lines also in file_1 file(output file)
Please explain

Example for the input file:
-------------------------
STARTUP NOMOUNT
test_file
text
STARTUP NOMOUNT

Thanks in advance,
It's quite simple, maybe this is more understandable:

Code:
/STARTUP NOMOUNT/{i++} # If the line matches the pattern then i = i + 1

Code:
i{print > "file_" i} # If i is not 0 print the line to the file "file_i"

After the first match the lines are printed to the file file_1 (i == 1), after the second match (i == 2) the lines are printed to the file file_2 (i == 2) etc.


Regards
# 10  
Old 09-17-2009
resetting the value of "i" to zero(0) did not happen... that is why it prints all the lines between regular expression...
# 11  
Old 09-18-2009
Hi thank a lot folks, now i understood
# 12  
Old 09-18-2009
thank you all for the valuable help
know_d_unknown, you proved my case that this is feasable with sed (so, I won 12 beers from one of my colleaugues :-) )
but I also agree that the solution of franklin is the best one
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