Break a file into smaller pieces with same search string
please help to break a file into smaller pieces with same search string and delete the matched lines.
like i have a below file
Code:
<expression>
some text
........
..........
</expression>
<expression>
some text
........
..........
</expression>
<expression>
some text
........
..........
</expression>
<expression>
some text
........
..........
</expression>
......................
.......................
.......................
Now every expression "/expression" will break in separate files.
I am extremely disappointed that after observing us helping other users for more than 2.5 years and helping you with two other problems, you are unwilling to clearly show us what output(s) you're trying to produce, to show us what you have tried, and to show us the output(s) that your attempt(s) have produced.
If I am correctly interpreting your request to be to copy lines from a file named input.xml into a file named output.ranx.xml with all sequences of lines in your input file starting with a line containing the string <expression> up to and including a line containing the string </expression> deleted, you could try something like:
Code:
sed '/<expression>/,/<\/expression>/d' input.xml > output.ranx.xml
which with your given sample input would create a file named output.ranx.xml containing the text:
When I first read your post #1, I had guessed that you wanted to create multiple output files with each of those output files containing one matched set of lines starting with a line containing the string <expression> and ending with the string </expression> but since you have specified that there is to only be one output file, that obviously can't be what you're trying to do. And re-reading your first post, I also see that this would not delete the matched lines as requested, so that can't be what you want.
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Apologies, I think i you missed or i didnt convey my message correctly .. I have one input file "input.xml" that contains the above text and it search the expression first and import to the 1_input_ranx.xml file and expression second and import to the 2_input_ranx.xml so on and remove the expression receptively. So we need to create multiple output files from one input file with the same expression. Hope i can elaborate it now.Thanks!
We obviously have a little bit of a language barrier here. I have no idea what "remove the expression receptively" means. So, I do not know what output you want to place into any of your output files.
Since you can't do arithmetic in sed, you'll probably want to process your input file directly in the shell or use something like awk or perl.
Can we assume that every input line containing <expression> will have a line following it containing </expression>?
Please try to come up with something that does what you want and show us what you have tried to get there. And, please show us exactly what output you hope to produce in each of the output files you want to produce from your sample input!
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