Awk and big loops

[csripriya1]

Hi All,
I am new to the awk scripting language. I want to split a large file into multiple small files. I am looking for a pattern in the large file and breaking it into smaller files.
This is how my code looks
{
for(i=1;i<=10;i++)
{
file = "xsaa_"
name = ".sdf"
for (j=1;j<=10; j++)
{
print > (file i name)
getline
while($1 !~ /\$\$\$\$/)
{
print > (file i name)
getline
}
}
print > (file i name)
getline

print (file i name " This file has been printed")
}
exit
}

When I change the size of the loop to 100 or 100 I get incomplete output files. I guess this problem should be simple. But I do not where the bug is. Can anyone please help me with this.

Thanks for your time

 

[csripriya1]

This is in addition to my earlier post. I copied some of the outputfiles to another directory , while the process was still running and writing other outputfiles. Then I did this " tail -n ". It was incomplete.
After the process was done I did " tail -n " again on the same outputfile. I see that it is complete now. Can anyone pl explain this weird situation.

Thanks

 

[futurelet]

BEGIN { prefix="xsaa_"; suffix=".sdf"; i=1 }

$1 ~ /\$\$\$\$/  { i++ }

{ print  > (prefix i suffix) }

 

[PHV]

man csplit

Hope This Helps, PH.
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