The csplit is a Unix command thats split a file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines.
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csplit - what am I doing wrong?
I have this .xml file:
Some text
here some
text here
I am trying to use csplit in order to get only the text parts. This is what I came up with.
$ csplit docs.xml '%^%1' '/^<\/doc/1'…

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Redirect `csplit` output to a pager instead of creating files
I am using scplit to split a large file where the spitting pattern is --. My goal is to redirect all the splits into a pager rather than creating files. In the pager, I want to be able to watch one split at a time. The command to split the file…

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Csplit invalid pattern
I have to check the access-lists in over 200 devices then compare the new and old access-lists. I used Cisco Mass Configurator to get me the access-lists so I don't have to log in to each devices. I want to split the result (from Cisco Mass…

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Group columns and separate in R
I have a dataset, where I want to group 2 columns together (Proc Right and Days to Proc Right) and separate it from the next group of 2 columns (Proc Left and Days to Proc Left). During separation, I want to separate based on chronology of days to…
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j-argument when using cSplit function in R
I can not find a solution to this error and I am not sure what the cause of it is.
I am trying to pull some stats Canada data sets. I have about 500 data points to update each month which can be identified by unique vector numbers. I have a way to…

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csplit regex multiple digits between "[" and "]"
I want to split txt file on string "Template[0]", "Template[1]" etc.
The command below works until "Template[10]"
csplit -k cert_templates.txt '/Template\[[0-9]\]:/' {*}
I tried those but they did'nt work
csplit -k cert_templates.txt…

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using csplit and using "incr|full|manual" operator but i like to know which one was match in a line
I have lines
bpdppa301p.corpads.local 86929680 JC_UNIX_FS01_INCR JC_FS UNIX_FS01_INCR incr 02/24/2022 03/30/2022 03/30/2022 disk 1645678800 backup 84 MB /dbwsrp01/dbwsrp01 JCBDD1300P.corpads.local
bpdppa301p.corpads.local 82578060…

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Need help in my script , for some reason if statement not working
In put file. I am looking for largest size value under each backup type ( db2, rman or file ) for each server. same server may have multiple entry with different value for same backup type.
hup00010.corpads.local 84675276 MN_UNIX_NP_7_Days …

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Parsing on the first instance of a set of values
I have a dataframe in R as follows.
test <- data.frame("FRUITSTRING" = c("APPLE_PEAR_BANANA",
"TURNIP_CABBAGE_ORANGE_PEAR_BANANA",
"APPLE_CARROT_PEAR_BANANA"),
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File with multiple Doctype declaration using CSPLIT
I have a file with multiple Doctype declarations. I am trying to use CSPLIT to break the file up into smaller chunks but running into some issues.
Here is a sample of the file I am working with:

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Creating multiple files with names matching a pattern from one file
I have a text file such…

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How to transform my data frame to make rows columns?
I have a data frame with two columns, "Type" and "Stats". I want to each type to have one row with all of the stats in a separate column. For example, my data frame looks something like this:
Column Type has values: A A A A B B B B
Column Stats has…
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Split File based on date prefix?
I have this file.log
Sep 16 16:18:49 abcd 123 456
Sep 16 16:18:49 abcd 123 567
Sep 17 16:18:49 abcd 123 456
Sep 17 16:18:49 abcd 123 567
I want to split based on date partition so I get,
Sep_16.log
Sep 16 16:18:49 abcd 123 456
Sep 16 16:18:49 abcd…

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How to csplit on tabs?
I have a tab delimited file with chunks of data separated by lines of empty fields. It looks like this:
#comment\n
datadatadata\n
datadatadata\n
\n
#comment\n
#comment…

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Trouble using csplit to split a text file based on delimiter
I have a text file containing multiple chunks of texts. In between each chunk, I've inserted the string '######## START OF NEW ARTICLE ########'. I'm trying to split the file at each of those instances using csplit in order to get separate files,…

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