Re: Breaking Up A Text File

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From: John Savage
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 00:00

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termite1@cris.com (Termite) writes:
>I have a 53+Meg text file (actually a bunch of uu-encoded files
>appended together) that I have to break down into smaller files that
>my uu-decoder can handle.

You could use the Un*x-style AWK utility to separately extract the files
from your conglomerate to FILE1.UUE, FILE2.UUE, FILE3.UUE, and so on.

awk 'BEGIN {n=1} /^begin/,/^end/ {print > "FILE"n".UUE"} /^end/ {n++}' filename

ftp ftp.coast.net /SimTel/msdos/awk/
awk320.zip    B   98194  910713  AWK text scanning and processing language

ftp ftp.coast.net /SimTel/vendors/gnu/gnuish
mawk11ax.zip  B  144640  1993
gawk2156.zip  B  233855  1995
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John Savage               koala@sydney.dialix.com.au

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Date: 1996/04/07
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