This "monica.txt" file isn't text, it's RTF! Hoping you knew that, but maybe you didn't. Substitution's still possible of course.
Boy, it's sure obnoxious having to work with BSD sed after having used GNU sed... Things any rational person would guess were basic, basic, basic features, like \n, don't work.
I did eventually manage to get it to do this:
Code:
$ echo "abc;;;def" | sed 's/;;;/\
/g'
abc
def
$
Yes, that is a literal newline inside the expression. You have to put a \ before the enter key to "escape" it or BSD sed will whine about it. It may be possible to substitute it in by putting the expression in double quotes, and using $'\n', but this may be more trouble than it's worth and involve outrageous numbers of backslashes.
By the way, 'cat file | program' is a useless use of cat. You can do it faster and just as simply with
Code:
program < file
or, if you prefer the file being in front, that works too:
Please attach files in a flat format. Anyway, assuming the first instance of ";;;;" is on the first line:
Code:
awk 'NR==1{next}
!c || /;;;/{sub(";;;",""); c=sprintf("%04d",++i); close("comment" c ".txt")}
{print > "comment" c ".txt"}' monica.txt
Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.
I hate to be a pain, but I'm still getting the return "awk: illegal statement at source line 3
context is
{print > "comment" >>> c <<< ".txt"}" when I run this code. Does anyone know how what is wrong with the third line?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
This "monica.txt" file isn't text, it's RTF! Hoping you knew that, but maybe you didn't. Substitution's still possible of course.
Boy, it's sure obnoxious having to work with BSD sed after having used GNU sed... Things any rational person would guess were basic, basic, basic features, like \n, don't work.
I did eventually manage to get it to do this:
Code:
$ echo "abc;;;def" | sed 's/;;;/\
/g'
abc
def
$
Yes, that is a literal newline inside the expression. You have to put a \ before the enter key to "escape" it or BSD sed will whine about it. It may be possible to substitute it in by putting the expression in double quotes, and using $'\n', but this may be more trouble than it's worth and involve outrageous numbers of backslashes.
]
Excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by "newline inside the expression"? What would the full complete code be, exactly?
Excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by "newline inside the expression"?
Exactly what I said, no more, no less. The newline isn't represented by \n or anything. There's a real, actual newline inside the string. Note how one string crosses two lines:
Basically, I want it to take the file monica.txt and put every instance of ;;; on a new line and put it in fixed.txt, then split fixed.txt at every instance of ;;; and put it in new files called comment0001.txt, comment0002.txt,... comment2500.txt.
This is my output with a snippet of your file:
Code:
~/awktest$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 507 2010-12-09 18:58 monica.txt
Code:
~/awktest$ cat monica.txt
Huh. Okay. I'll be interested to see how this goes. posted by MF099 <*2:06 PM *#699152>*on October 31 ;;;
*faved* posted by MF018 <*2:09 PM *#699154>*on October 31 ;;;
Hmmm. Will this be site wide? I feel like in AskMe the visible favorite count often functions as "I would like to agree
with this answer" as opposed to "I would like to reward this snark". posted by MF542 <*2:16 PM *#699155>*on October 31 ;;;
It'll be site wide, yes. posted by MF531 <*2:17 PM *#699156>*on October 31 ;;;
Code:
~/awktest$ awk '
!c || /;;;/{c=sprintf("%04d",++i); close("comment" c ".txt")}
{print > "comment" c ".txt"}' monica.txt
Code:
~/awktest$ ls -l
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 110 2010-12-09 18:59 comment0001.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 67 2010-12-09 18:59 comment0002.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 248 2010-12-09 18:59 comment0003.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 82 2010-12-09 18:59 comment0004.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 507 2010-12-09 18:58 monica.txt
Code:
~/awktest$ cat comment0001.txt
Huh. Okay. I'll be interested to see how this goes. posted by MF099 <*2:06 PM *#699152>*on October 31 ;;;
~/awktest$ cat comment0002.txt
*faved* posted by MF018 <*2:09 PM *#699154>*on October 31 ;;;
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