Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:17:10 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: using split, can i break up a huge txt file using a regex Message-ID: <20091019021710.6f25c602.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091017052510.GA1893@thought.org> References: <20091017052510.GA1893@thought.org>
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:25:13 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> I would like to put back the
> huge text file into its 66 smaller files using split. Can I break this
> very large journeyTowardtheDawn.txt using the regex
> "Chapter [:digit:]{1,2}" ??
>
> Or maybe just "Chapter " ?
Maybe FreeBSD's csplit program is the right tool for this job.
It supports splitting files based on context; you can use
regex to express where a new file should be opened.
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Polytropon
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