Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

Please help me in writting the script
File contains:
=========

11424444, <basicpage>
jfalfksf
<dateofbirth>10/02/2005</dateofbrith>
jkaklgja
lg'd
....
11423224444, <basicpage>
jfalfksf
<dateofbirth>11/02/2005</dateofbrith>
jkaklgja
lg'd
11433523224444, <basicpage>
jfalfksf
<dateofbirth>09/03/2005</dateofbrith>
jkaklgja
lg'd
<dateofbirth>09/03/2005</dateofbrith>

.........
.....


output in 1.txt
======
11424444, <basicpage>
<dateofbirth>10/02/2005</dateofbrith>

output in 2.txt
==========
11433523224444, <basicpage>
<dateofbirth>09/03/2005</dateofbrith>
<dateofbirth>09/03/2005</dateofbrith>



Here if the dateofbrith occurence is once before the next basicpage then the output should go 1.txt file else if the dateofbrith string comes again before the next basicpage string then it should send the output to the other file say 2.txt


Thanks
satish

Have a look at the rules.

(4) Do not 'bump up' questions if they are not answered promptly. No duplicate or cross-posting and do not report a post where your goal is to get an answer more quickly.

Here is your original post - Help required

Thank you. I have deleted the second one.

And a third one at help required in unix command/script

Third duplicate thread closed.

thaduka, Please stop wasting our time by posting the same question several times. This is a question on shell scripting, so belongs in this forum. If you would like a prompt reply, it may help if you could post what you have done already.

You don't say which shell you are using. This should work for bash or ksh...

Code:

while read l
do
   case $l in
          *basicpage*) ((c=c+1)) ; f=myfile$c.txt ; [[ -s $f ]] && rm $f ;;
   esac
   case $l in
          *basicpage*|*dateofbrith*) echo "$l" >> $f ;;
   esac
done < infile