Bucket Lines with same pattern to one file.....

[Guest_imported]

HI All,

For example I have a "file" which contains the following,

1 CAT 34
2 CAT 33
3 CAT 88
4 DOG 90
5 DOG 12
6 PIG 34
7 PIG 33
8 PIG 25
9 COW 44
10 COW 45
11 ANT 23
12 ANT 33

Does anyone know how I can bucket the lines containing CAT and save it to one file named cat.txt, the same goes for DOG in dog.txt and for PIG in pig.txt?

I used bigoldbulldog's code below....

#! /usr/bin/awk -f
$2 != "" { print > tolower($2) ".txt" }

but an error message appears which says:
awk : too many output files...

Does anyone know how I can still use the above script to be incorporated on a file with more than 10 entries???

Thanks!
-CGLY

 

[daddymack]

awk '{c=tolower($2);print $0 >> c".txt"}' file

remember to remove the files from the prvious run before you process the file again.(it just keeps appending to the files)