Hello,

I have a text file in following format. Separate blocks of data are there, they are separated by a blank line. There are NO blanks in between data rows. First row of each data clock is a fixed one.

Game Date Process CDR Sell Reck
23 Test rts 123TST rt 45
34 No riverse 123 only na na
. . . . . .
155 na govt frame no sk

Game Date Save
12 no yes - do
13 Yes exact
. . .
16 do perfect

I need to split these data blocks in to different text files.

My output file 1 :

Game Date Process CDR Sell Reck
23 Test rts 123TST rt 45
34 No riverse 123 only na na
. . . . . .
155 na govt frame no sk

My output File 2:

Game Date Save
12 no yes - do
13 Yes exact
. . .
16 do perfect

Appreciate your assistance to do this process using a UNIX script.

Thanks.

Assuming the "blank lines" you described is fixed, eg "\n\n\n", and also your file is not very big, using Python:

>>> f = open("inputfile.txt").read()
>>> all = f.split("\n\n\n")
>>> i = 1 #counter to name your output files
>>> for items in all:
............open(str(i) + ".txt","w").write(items)
............i = i + 1
...
>>>

the output files will be 1.txt , 2.txt...etc

I think you want to use the csplit command which splits a file based on regular expressions. Take a look at these links:

http://www.computing.net/unix/wwwboard/forum/7415.html
http://www.computing.net/unix/wwwboard/forum/7134.html

csplit -zs -f item file.txt /^Game\ Date/ {*}

Luke Chi