Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello to everyone,
I am new to UNIX and I am having a problem. I have a file full of information, and need to create diferent files. I have to split the file whenever I find a sentence in the original one. This sentence is always the same (JOB ^....). As you can see I need to read a file, and whenever I find a sentence create a new file, ending whenever I find that sentence again. I have read about sed and awk, but don't know how to use it, or if it is the best option. I need to split the file because the next step in the process is not capable of doing it.
An example of the original file would be:
Job^1
a
b
c
Job^2
d
e
f

And need to end with a two files. The first file:
Job^1
a
b
c
A second file:
Job^2
d
e
f

Any help anyone could give me would be very appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
Jordi

Something like

Code:

awk '{if ($0 ~ /^Job\^/) {c=$0;print $0 >> c} else {print $0 >> c} }' data

This will create files as you want, Job^1, Job^2, etc.

Cheers
ZB

Thanks a lot

One more question. The name of the original file is XXXX.dat, and I want them to be named XXXX1.dat, XXXX2.dat and so on. How can I do that?
Thanks a lot,
Jordi

A little script such as

Code:

#!/bin/sh

awk 'BEGIN {c=0}
     { if ($0 ~ /^Job\^/)
        {f="XXXX"++c".DAT";print $0 >> f}
       else {print $0 >> f}
     }' XXXX.DAT

Cheers
ZB

an alterntive way :



ext=`echo $1 | cut -d"." -f 2`
file=`echo $1 | cut -d"." -f 1`

while read line
do
echo $line | grep "^Job"
if test $? -eq 0
then
count=`echo $line | cut -d"^" -f 2`
filenam=$file$count.$ext
echo $line >> $filenam
else
echo $line >> $filenam
fi
done < $1