split file content into specific folders

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi
I have a large text file and I want to split its content into multiple flies.
this large file contains several blocks of codes separated by a comment line for each block.
this comment line represents a directory path

So, when separate these blocks each into a separate file, This output file should be in the same name and directory of its block comment.

an example of the large file content is:

//home/user/app1/lib/note1.txt
xyz
xyz
zylij
//home/user/app1/core/note2.txt
xyz
xyz
zylij

The result will be 2 files:
note1.txt file is created in the path //home/user/app1/lib

and

note2.txt file is created in the path //home/user/app1/core

and so on

Kindly, can you help in writing such a script

Thank you

2 
awk -v RS="//" '{ print > "//"$1 }' inputfile

Use nawk on solaris.

3

Didn't work

awk: cannot open "//" for output (Is a directory)

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I manage to make it work , only when I remove the // from the first line of the large file and keep the subsequent //home/xxxx directory path entries

However, when a block does contain another comment (it is also // but not the //home/xxx directory path), it will cut that file and wont create the blocked file fully. i.e it will crate the block file but not complete!

What I need is to create separate files from the large file , while each block is identified by the full path of the directory:
//home/user/app1/lib/note1.txt

rather than just //

I hope I am making myself understandable

thank you

4

I'm afraid you aren't.

What things did you change to make it work?

What did it then do?

5

Would this solve the splitting of the content into multiple files?

All files in same directory:

awk 'BEGIN{FS="/"}{if($NF ~ /note.*txt/) y=$NF; if($NF !~ "txt") print $0 > y }' infile

or

All files in given directory

awk 'BEGIN{FS="//"}{if($NF ~ /note.*txt/) y=$NF; if($NF !~ "txt") print $0 > y }' infile
6

Note: Posix awk will only allow RS to consist of a single character.

7

still not working :frowning:

Here is an example of the original file (I will call it x1) that I want to split it into multiple text files (t1.txt, t2.txt and t3.txt) in the directory /home/turki/Downloads/widd (which is already exist)

this is the content of the original file x1

/home/turki/Downloads/widd/t1.txt
t1 file starts here
/****************************************************************************
WISO PROJECT Version : 1.5 //some comment here
end t1
//home/turki/Downloads/widd/t2.txt
t2 file starts here
/****************************************************************************
WConsole Class
end t2
//home/turki/Downloads/widd/t3.txt
t3 file starts here
/****************************************************************************
WInstance Class
end t3

When I use the command:

awk -v RS="//" '{ print > "//"$1 }' x1

it does split the content of the x1 file into 3 files t1.txt, t2.txt and t3.txt each in its specified location (inside the "widd" directory)
However, the problem is that if the section of the file contains a comment (like in t1.txt section //some comment here) the split of that file stops there and does not show the whole content of t1 section in the t1.txt file. But I have no problem with t2 and t3 as the content for t2 and t3 does the perfect job of copying the whole content to their appropriate txt files.

How can I split the content of the t1 section EVEN with the comment inside it to the new t1.txt file?

Thank you,

8

Hi guys,

any help?