Divide the file into several Variable

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have a file, let's say X

BTS 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
BTS 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
BTS 2          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE

I want to devide the file into several variables based on the number of BTS, there's 3 BTSes here, so i need three variable.

Variable ONE contains:

BTS 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE

Variable TWO contains:

BTS 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
 TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
 TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE

Variable THREE contains:

BTS 2          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
 TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
 TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE

I need your help guys... :confused:

2

you wanted to divide in 3 variables or 3 files?

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awk '{if($0 !~ /BTS/){cur=cur " " $0;}else {printf("%s\n", cur);cur=$0}}END{print cur}'  file
3

thanks bro..

devide to 3 variables (but 3 files are also ok), your script tested ini solaris and this is the result:

the file still in 1 file and this is the result:

BTS 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
BTS 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
BTS 2          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE

we can use BTS number as the name of its variable or file, BTS0 for variable number 1, BTS1 for variable number 2 and so on. So the result wanted are:

for variable number 1 (BTS0), contain the text:

BTS 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE

for variable number 2 (BTS1), contain the text:

BTS 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE

for variable number 3 (BTS2), contain the text:

BTS 2          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
4

Try this:

awk '/BTS/{f=$2}{print > "BTS" f}'  file
5

if your file is small, may use below similar perl script.

local $/;
my $str=<DATA>;
my @arr = split(/^(?=BTS)/m,$str);
for(my $i=0;$i<=$#arr;$i++){
	*{"var".$i}=\$arr[$i];
}
print $var2;
__DATA__
BTS 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
BTS 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
BTS 2          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 0          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE
TRX 1          UNLOCKED         ENABLED         NONE