Extract sections from file

[stackdump]

I have a file with the contents of;

Section A
fsfs
ss
gsgs
End A

Section B
ds
ssf
End B
etc. etc.

I want to generate a file for each section, so a file called "A" and "B" etc. In each file, the text for that section. The number of lines between section start and end are variable.

Any easy way to do this?

 

[p5wizard]

try csplit command (if your unix has it)

csplit "/^Section /" "*" </path/to/inputfile

But if I read man page (which you should do also ;-)) correctly, the section files will be named 000, 001, 002, ...


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[stackdump]

Thanks.

I got a solution running with awk, for posterity, here it is...

{
if (match($0,"SECTION"))
{
InSection= 1
FileName = $2".txt"
}
if (match($0,"END SECTION"))
{
InSection=0
print > FileName
next
}
if (InSection) print > FileName
}