UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

#! /bin/ksh

FILE_NAME="list"

HEADER=`head -1 $FILE_NAME`
TOTAL_LINES=`expr \`cat $FILE_NAME | wc -l\` - 1`

i=1
while [ $i -le $TOTAL_LINES ]
do
        i=`expr $i + 1`

        TEMP_FILE_NAME="file_`expr $i - 1`"
        TEMP_VALUE=`head -$i list | tail -1`

        echo "$HEADER\n$TEMP_VALUE" > "$TEMP_FILE_NAME"
done

#!/bin/sh
awk 'BEGIN {getline hdr}
{i++
 print hdr >  "file" i
 print $0  >> "file" i
 close("file" i)
}' file.in

#! /bin/ksh
for filename in *
do
	nline=wc -l $filename
	if [$nline -gt 1000] 
	then
		headLine= `head -1 $filename`
		tailLine= `tail -1 $filename`
		endCode= `abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz`
		counter= 1
		countLine= 2
		# For initialization before the first running of the while loop
		newFileName=`echo $filename| cut -c1-3,5-8``echo $endCode | cut -c$counter``echo $filename| cut -c9-12`
		echo $headLine > $newFileName
		
		while [$countLine -le $nline]
		do
			newFileName=`echo $filename| cut -c1-3,5-8``echo $endCode | cut -c$counter``echo $filename| cut -c9-12`
		
			typeset -Z3 headVar=0 ## no typeset in SCO?!
			echo ${headVar} 
			headVar=`expr $headVar + 1` 
			echo $headVar`head -$countLine filename | tail -1 | cut -c4- ` >> newFileName
			newFileNoLine= wc -l newFileName
			if [$newFileNoLine -eq 999] 
			then
				echo $tailLine >> newFileName
				counter=`expr $counter +1`
				headVar= 1
			fi
		done
	fi
done