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hi

I have a log file which contains some reports. The log file looks like this:-

STARTOFREPORT
/tmp
file1.txt
some
text
to
be
folowd
ENDOFREPORT
some non utilized
characters
STARTOFREPORT
/log
file2.txt
more
text
to
be
folowd
ENDOFREPORT
blabla
blak
acd


I want the text between STARTOFREPORT and ENDOFREPORT to be splited in two files i.e. file1.txt and file2.txt and stored at /tmp and /log location respectively.

Please help as how to achieve this

Thanks

I suppose one simple approach using awk:

Code:

awk '
  /STARTOFREPORT/ { getline PATH; getline FILE; p = 1; next }
  /ENDOFREPORT/ { p = 0 }
  p { print > PATH "/" FILE }
' input_file

> cat /tmp/file1.txt
some
text
to
be
folowd

> cat /log/file2.txt
more
text
to
be
folowd

Thanks fro your reply.
It works perfect.
just a little confusion.
if the report contains
STARTOFREPORT
/path
file.txt
ENDOFREPORT

no file is created at the location.
Is there any way to create the file at the path, be it of 0bytes.

Thanks

Code:

/STARTOFREPORT/ { getline PATH; getline FILE; printf "" > PATH "/" FILE; p = 1; next }