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Old 12-12-2005
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Originally Posted by srivsn
Hi Mona,

Thx a lot. It worked. Smilie Can you tell me how to split a large file when it came across a pattern like "###" in the beginning of the line.
Eg: ### Job 65 (RPT507A BBW ): 390 lines, 7 pages, 10/26/2005 01:55:16

I have multiple lines like the one above in a single file. I have to split the file into number of files when I came across ### at the beginning of the line and store the lines including the ### line in a temporary file. Please help.

Thx in advance........
srivsn
I don't think this can be done with a single command. Perhaps i wrote a shell script for this. The file to be splited should be given as argument.

Code:
file=0
tot_line=`wc -l $1 | awk '{print $1}'`
i=1
rm "$1_"*
while [[ i -le tot_line ]]
do
line=`tail +"$i" $1 | head -1`
echo $line | grep '^###' > /dev/null
if [[ $? == 0 ]]
then
(( file = file + 1 ))
fi
echo $line >> "$1_"$file
(( i = i + 1 ))
done

Code:
/mona> cat RPT_1dfsdf

Code:
ffsdfsdf
### Job 65 (RPT507A BBW ): 390 lines, 7 pages, 10/26/2005 01:55:16
ffsdfsdf
### Job 65 (RPT507A BBW ): 390 lines, 7 pages, 10/26/2005 01:55:16
dfsdfsd
sdfsdf
sdfsdf
sdfsfd
ffsdfsdf
### Job 65 (RPT507A BBW ): 390 lines, 7 pages, 10/26/2005 01:55:16
/mona>split_file.sh RPT_1dfsdf
/mona>ls -lt | head
-rw-r--r--   1 test     test         105 Dec 12 12:42 RPT_1dfsdf_2
-rw-r--r--   1 test     test          67 Dec 12 12:42 RPT_1dfsdf_3
-rw-r--r--   1 test     test           9 Dec 12 12:42 RPT_1dfsdf_0
-rw-r--r--   1 test     test          76 Dec 12 12:42 RPT_1dfsdf_1
/mona>cat RPT_1dfsdf_0
ffsdfsdf
/mona>cat RPT_1dfsdf_1
### Job 65 (RPT507A BBW ): 390 lines, 7 pages, 10/26/2005 01:55:16
ffsdfsdf
/mona>cat RPT_1dfsdf_2
### Job 65 (RPT507A BBW ): 390 lines, 7 pages, 10/26/2005 01:55:16
dfsdfsd
sdfsdf
sdfsdf
sdfsfd
ffsdfsdf
/mona>cat RPT_1dfsdf_3
### Job 65 (RPT507A BBW ): 390 lines, 7 pages, 10/26/2005 01:55:16
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