AWK to Split Files

Question

I have a below awk command which is looking into "test.sql" file (which has multiple CREATE TABLE statements), I want to generate multiple files based on each CREATE TABLE statement. For which I could achieve with the below command.

But the current file names that are generated is as below : F1.sql F2.sql ...

awk  '/CREATE TABLE/{x="F"++i".sql";}{print > x;}' test.sql

So instead of giving F1.sql or F2.sql, I want to substitute the varaible "F" with some shell holding variable.

Current OutPut is: F1.sql F2.sql

Expected Output: Declred variable F="test"

Output: test1.sql test2.sql

Please suggest.

@Inian Tried that but was not success full over the above case. — Sampat Kumar, Jan 29 '18 at 10:55
This is what I treid but no luck: awk -v TGT_FILE_NM="${TGT_FILE_NM}" '/CREATE TABLE/{x=TGT_FILE_NM++i".sql";}{print > x;}' test.sql — Sampat Kumar, Jan 29 '18 at 10:56

Inian · Answer 1 · 2018-01-29T11:03:00.053

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You are just incorrectly using the awk variable that you imported from the shell. It cannot be within quotes, under which it is interpreted as a literal string.

F="test"
awk -v fname="$F" '/CREATE TABLE/{x=fname""++i".sql";}{print > x;}' test.sql

Also you could close the file descriptors opened as part of print > x with an explicit close() call i.e. as

awk -v fname="$F" '/CREATE TABLE/{x=fname""++i".sql";}{print > x; close(x)}' test.sql

edited Jan 29 '18 at 11:03

answered Jan 29 '18 at 10:58

Inian

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So why "" made a differnece @Inian – Sampat Kumar Jan 29 '18 at 11:02
@SampatKumar: Notice you had `F` under quotes, it is _incorect_ which is why I didn't have it `""` is just an empty string used to concatenate rest of the string – Inian Jan 29 '18 at 11:04

AWK to Split Files

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