Divide data into separate files

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

frnds:

i want to divide data on the behalf of dotted line and redirectd into new files

 )                       
-------------------------
 M-GET CONFIRMATION (    
-------------------------
 M-GET CONFIRMATION (    
     INVOKE IDENTIFIER

final data shuld be into 3 files ... file1 file2 file3

2

Please give us more clue. Expected input and output.

3

input data mentioed above:

output shud be:

 )  -- shud be in file1                    
-------------------------
 M-GET CONFIRMATION (    shud be in file 2
-------------------------
 M-GET CONFIRMATION (     shud be in file3
     INVOKE IDENTIFIER

after every doted line data shud be redirected into a new file$

4

Hi

awk '!/^---/{print > "File"i;next}{i++}' i=1 inputfile

Guru.

5

its not working ... i want on every repeation of dotted line it create a new file and redirect that paragraph into dat file

6 
 
awk 'BEGIN{i=1} {print $0 > "File_no"i;if (/^-----/) {++i}}' filename
7

You can use csplit...

$ cat infile
)
-------------------------
 M-GET CONFIRMATION (
-------------------------
 M-GET CONFIRMATION (
     INVOKE IDENTIFIER

$ csplit --prefix='outfile' infile '/----------/' '{*}'
25
52
75

$ head outfile??
==> outfile00 <==
)

==> outfile01 <==
-------------------------
 M-GET CONFIRMATION (

==> outfile02 <==
-------------------------
 M-GET CONFIRMATION (
     INVOKE IDENTIFIER

...or if you don't want the line of dashes in the output files, then try awk...

$ awk '/----------/{close(f);i++;next}{f=sprintf("outfile%02d",i);print > f}' infile

$ head outfile??
==> outfile00 <==
)

==> outfile01 <==
 M-GET CONFIRMATION (

==> outfile02 <==
 M-GET CONFIRMATION (
     INVOKE IDENTIFIER

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