Re: csplit - split by content of field

[Pádraig Brady]

On 02/07/2013 03:02 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote, On 02/06/2013 05:38 PM:
> > On 02/06/2013 10:09 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > > Attach is a patch that gives 'csplit' the ability to split files by content of 
> > > a field.
> > Yes such a feature is useful, though maybe in conjuntion with uniq:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-03/msg00000.html
> >
> > So basically the proposal there is to support --suppress-matched
> > so that you could then do:
> >
> > uniq -w1 --unique=separated --all-repeated=separated |
> > csplit --suppress-matched '/^$/' '{*}'
> >
> > The caveat with that though is that uniq would
> > benefit from better field selection, which is
> > also on the TODO list.
>
> uniq with fields is indeed useful, but the example above seems a bit long for 
> something that can be acheived natively with just csplit (IMHO) - what do you 
> think ?

My first reaction was I was wary about adding field processing to csplit.
Though I've not thought much about it.
I'll think a bit more when I have time.

thanks,
Pádraig.