Shell Programming and Scripting

Would go better with the ';'
19. do N=$(echo $L | grep -E '^(VTZ|NYZ)[0-9]+') && { F=$N; echo $F; :>${F}; }[/B]

Code:

awk '/^(NYZ|VTZ)/{n=$1}n{print >n}$1=="$$"{n=x}' infile

Hello - thanks again for the help:

Frans - I made your change and now I am getting an error on the next line:

line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
Scrutinizer - I typed in your line of code and it did nothing. Is that supposed to be a csh or sh file?

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Oops, sorry about that code Frans. The done < infile line gives me the following error:

syntax error near unexpected token `done'

Neither, it is awk. It give no output on the command line, but it should produce output files. Did you check if they are present, using ls -ltr?
Otherwise are you on Solaris? use nawk instead of /usr/xpg4/bin/awk

Perhaps this would work:

Code:

awk '!/\$/{print $0 ORS ORS "$$">$1}' RS= infile