split a file using awk

mohan_xunil · December 23, 2009, 2:01am

Hi ,

I just need to split a file and outputfiles are redirected to gzip file

need:

Input file - A.gz

content of A.gz is

Output file 3- 200312.gz
100|sfdds|dffdds|200312|sdfdf

Output file 4- 200142.gz
100|sfdds|dffdds|200142|sdfdf

need ur help in doing so

Thanks,

Franklin52 · December 23, 2009, 2:21am

Should be something like this:

awk -F"|" 'n != $4 {n=$4; c++} {print > c "-" $4 ".gz"}' A.gz

mohan_xunil · December 23, 2009, 2:40am

Hi Franklin,

The input and output files should be gzip files and are not a normal txt files

Franklin52 · December 23, 2009, 3:27am

In that case you should use something like gzcat or gzip to unextract the file first. How?