SPLIT a file based on String

[Richard England]

Nat Gross wrote:

>On 12/25/05, Richard England <rengland at europa.com> wrote:
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>>Nat Gross wrote:
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>>>Hi;
>>>I need something like SPLIT, but instead of splitting based on bytes
>>>or lines, I want it to start a new file every time it encounters a
>>>"CREATE TABLE" string.
>>>I am a newbie with command line tools.
>>>
>>>Thank you all;
>>>-nat
>>>
>>>
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>> csplit -k -f section testfile  '/CREATE TABLE/' {*}
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>>This should help.   -f section   makes the split data show up in files
>>called  'section01', 'section02', etc. -k keeps it from deleting output
>>files created if an error occurs.  'testfile' is the input file,
>>'/CREATE TABLE/' is the regular expression used to match and {*}  uses
>>the previous reg. exp.  as many times as necessary.
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>Thank you much! Not only for the solution, but the  explanation! I
>wish all answers were so concise and to the point.
>-nat
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You're welcome.  I guess too many years in SW support shows.  :-) 

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