CODEWITHSUNDEEP
awksplitgrep
Adam
Adam

Reputation: 23

Split content into multiple file

I have following content of file text.txt

bla,one,bla
bla,two,bla
bla,one,bla
bla,one,bla

I would like to key off 2nd field and split content into following files:

# One.txt
bla,one,bla
bla,one,bla
bla,one,bla

And

#Two.txt:
bla,two,bla

Upvotes: 0

Views: 50

Answers (1)

nu11p01n73R
nu11p01n73R

Reputation: 26667

This can be very easily done using redirections within an awk script

awk -F, '{print > ($2".txt")}'

Example

$ awk k -F, '{print > ($2".txt")}' file

$ cat one.txt
bla,one,bla
bla,one,bla
bla,one,bla

$ cat two.txt
bla,two,bla

  • print by default prints the current input line.

  • > $2".txt" Redirects the print output to the a file with second column as its name.

  • It would be a good idea to close the files as well, so that we don't end up with too many opened file descriptors, Just in case the input file is too big.

    close($2."txt")

Upvotes: 3

Related Questions