Re: [OT] splitting files based on keyword

[bmarcum@iglou.com (Bill Marcum)]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:57:07PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> I have a large text file (humongous.txt) with the following structure
> 
> 
> date 1-1-2005
> line1
> line2
> date 1-2-2005
> line3
> line4
> date 1-3-2005
> line5
> line6
> line7
> line8
> .....
> 
> Is there any tool which will split the above file and give me three 
> smaller files  1-1-2005.txt, 1-2-2005.txt, 1-3-2005.txt etc., where
> 
awk '$1=="date"{close outfile; outfile=$2 ".txt"} {print > outfile}'



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