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Old 07-10-2019
awk solution for Splitting a file.

Hi I have a csv file with as below

Code:
sdg-catalog-00000001
sdg-sku-00000317
sdg-sku-00000318
sdg-sku-00000319
sdg-sku-00000320
sdg-catalog-00000002
sdg-sku-00000321
sdg-sku-00000322
sdg-sku-00000323
sdg-sku-00000324
sdg-sku-00000325
sdg-catalog-00000003
sdg-sku-00000326
sdg-sku-00000327
sdg-sku-00000328
sdg-sku-00000329
sdg-sku-00000330
sdg-sku-00000330
sdg-sku-00000330
sdg-catalog-00000004
sdg-sku-00000332
sdg-sku-00000333
sdg-sku-00000334
sdg-sku-00000335
...
...
...
sdg-catalog-00000050
...
...

I would like to split the file in to 50 csv files as a parts below accordingly.
Any simple awk solution for this please.

sdg-catalog-00000001
Code:
sdg-sku-00000317
sdg-sku-00000318
sdg-sku-00000319
sdg-sku-00000320

sdg-catalog-00000002
Code:
sdg-sku-00000321
sdg-sku-00000322
sdg-sku-00000323
sdg-sku-00000324
sdg-sku-00000325

sdg-catalog-00000003
Code:
sdg-sku-00000326
sdg-sku-00000327
sdg-sku-00000328
sdg-sku-00000329
sdg-sku-00000330
sdg-sku-00000330
sdg-sku-00000330

sdg-catalog-00000004
Code:
sdg-sku-00000332
sdg-sku-00000333
sdg-sku-00000334
sdg-sku-00000335

could someone help me in this.
# 2  
Old 07-10-2019
Hello Raghuram717,

Could you please try following(haven't tested it though).

Code:
awk '/^sdg-catalog/{close(file);file=$0;next} {print > file}'  Input_file

Thanks,
R. Singh

Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 07-10-2019 at 01:14 PM..
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# 3  
Old 07-10-2019
Slight correction to Ravinder's suggestion:
Code:
awk '/^sdg-catalog/{close(file);file=$0;next} {print > file}'  Input_file

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Old 07-11-2019
yes this was working for me...!
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