Split line to multiple files Awk/Sed/Shell Script help

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I need help to split lines from a file into multiple files.

my input look like this:

13
23 45 45 6 7
33 44 55 66 7

13
34 5 6 7 87
45 7 8 8 9

13
44 55 66 77 8
44 66 88 99 6

I want to split every 3 lines from this file to be written to individual files.

Please help me. Thank you in advance.

2

Hi

split -l4 infile outfile

4 is used since you have shown a blank line. if no blank line, use 3.

Guru.

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3

Thanks Guru, can you tell me how to get the output files names as 1.out, 2.out and so on.

4

Hi

Using split, it will generate files with aa,ab,ac and so on, and you have to manually rename it.

Use awk in this case which will give your expected:

awk ' {print > (NR%4?i:i++)".out"; }' i=1 infile

Guru.