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Old 05-04-2012
separate records

i have a file contains continues records; i want to separate each section that has the same 1st field by putting ''###''.
[input file]
Code:
1 salam_32 tr po
1 sed_po wqu
1 Pdot. food 32
2 eeeelll
2 wwwqww qwqw e 
3 d
3 r
3 0
3 322

[output desired file]
Code:
1 salam_32 tr po
1 sed_po wqu
1 Pdot. food 32
###
2 eeeelll
2 wwwqww qwqw e 
###
3 d
3 r
3 0
3 322

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Mod Comment Please use next time code tags for your code and data

Last edited by vbe; 05-04-2012 at 11:51 AM..
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Old 05-04-2012
Try:
Code:
awk 'p!=$1 && NR>1{print "###"}{p=$1}1' infile

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