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# 1  
Old 02-20-2013
Ignoring lines and create new file
Hello,
I have a requirement to ignore few lines in a file before keyword FILEHEADER . As soon as there is keyword FILEHEADER is identified in file , it will form another file with data from FILEHEADER to whatever in file after FILEHEADER.
I wrote
Code:
filename=$1
awk '/FILEHEADER/{a=$1;sub(".*FILEHEADER","",a);b=$2}/FILEHEADER/{print > a"_Src_"b".txt"}' $filename

but this is not working . Also its a fixed width file
Data format example
Code:
FILEHEADERTESTA     212012234234
test1
test2

File to be formed with name like TESTA_Src_21.txt
Last edited by joeyg; 02-20-2013 at 04:06 PM.. Reason: Please wrap commands and data with CodeTags
# 2  
Old 02-20-2013
Code:
awk '/FILEHEADER/{p=1}p' $filename > TESTA_Src_21.txt

# 3  
Old 02-20-2013
Code:
sed '/FILEHEADER/,$!d'

# 4  
Old 02-21-2013
How about this one:
Code:
awk     '/FILEHEADER/ {p=1; sub(/FILEHEADER/,""); fn=$1"_Src_"$2".txt"}
         !p {next}
         {print > fn}
        ' file

$ cat TESTA_Src_212012234234.txt 
TESTA     212012234234
test1
test2

# 5  
Old 02-21-2013
Does 'from' mean 'from the first character of' or 'from past', 'from beyond' ? Anybody can write code from good requirements, but it takes skill to write good requirements.
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