Now i need to split this file such that all the lines before the last occurence of 3186 goes to one file and all the line after that till last occurence of 9876 should go to second file. so there should be two files one with following data:
Hi
The files are very big with over 1.5 Lakh records. The matching patterns are of fixed length of 8 characters, which i have to read from a file.
For each line of that file, i will search in this file which needs to splitted.
You didn't say what your filenames are??? You didn't say whether the patterns appear only at the start of lines or appear anywhere in lines in your input file???
Making lots of wild assumptions:
The patterns you're trying to match don't contain any characters that are "special" in a regular expression.
The patterns you're trying to match don't contain any whitespace characters.
The patterns you're trying to match don't contain any question mark characters.
The patterns you're trying to match only appear at the start of a line in your input file.
The patterns you want to match appear on the first line of a file named patterns and are separated by one or more space or tab characters.
The names of the input file and both output files will be passed to this script as operands 1, 2, and 3, respectively (and default to files named input, out1, and out2 if operands are not given to the script).
Your output filenames do not contain any whitespace characters.
The last line in your input file matching the 1st pattern appears earlier in the input file than the last line matching the 2nd pattern.
If any of these assumptions are incorrect, the following script may need to be modified to make it work. But, if all of these assumptions are correct, the following script produces the output you requested if the input file contains the sample input in your 1st messsage in this thread and the file patterns contains:
This was written and tested using the Korn shell, but should work fine with any other shell that recognizes basic Bourne shell syntax or the shell syntax specified by the POSIX Standards and the Single UNIX Specifications.
The awk script Scrutinizer provided makes some of the above assumptions and also assumes that your second pattern can be found on the last line in your input file (which was true in your example). The ed script above allows other lines to follow the 2nd pattern and to not copy them to the 2nd file.
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07-18-2013
Split a fixed length file bases on last occurence of string
