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Old 11-24-2011
need help with awk
I have a CSV file like this

Code:
#product
laptop,notebook,ipad
hp,acer,apple
dell,lenovo,sony

#region
city,country
newyork,US

#Time
month,year
jan,2011
feb,2012

---------------------------------
I want to store this data seperately in two files with different names:

First file 1.file_prod_reg should have data under #product and #region
Code:
#product
laptop,notebook,ipad
hp,acer,apple
dell,lenovo,sony

#region
city,country
newyork,US

Second file 2.file_time which should contain data under time
Code:
#time
month,year
jan,2011
feb,2012


PLease help mt out on this i tried using awk but no luck Smilie

Thanks,
Mani

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# 2  
Old 11-24-2011
What you have tried so far ..
# 3  
Old 11-24-2011
Hi Diddy,

u can try something like this:

Code:
bash-2.03$ cat brk.sh
n=`grep -n "#Time" rough1.txt|awk -F":" '{print $1 }'`
m=`expr $n - 1 `
sed -n '1,'$m'p' rough1.txt > file1.file_prod_reg
sed -n ''$n',$p' rough1.txt > file2.file_prod_reg

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# 4  
Old 11-24-2011
Thanks,

but this logic wont work if the #Time headind repeats again..

i want to direct specific data under specific heading to a separate specific file... will that be possible?
# 5  
Old 11-24-2011
Hi Diddy,

Can you give example of what you are looking for.
# 6  
Old 11-25-2011
see the file is like this

Code:
#heading1
Records

#heading2
Records 

#heading3
Records


i want to direct #heading1 and its records into a separate file, #heading2 and its records into another file..like this ..so on....The original file is a CSV file,
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---------- Post updated 11-25-11 at 04:41 PM ---------- Previous update was 11-24-11 at 09:47 PM ----------

some one help me out on this.
Last edited by vgersh99; 11-24-2011 at 12:24 PM.. Reason: code tags,please!
# 7  
Old 11-25-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Diddy
i want to direct #heading1 and its records into a separate file, #heading2 and its records into another file..like this ..so on....
Code:
awk '/^#/{++c}NF{file="file"c".file_prod_reg";print $0 > file}' file

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