GNU bug report logs - #8796
I need help piping csplit

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Julio Cesar Gonzalez Torres <bettlebog <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 19:51:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: 8796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8796: I need help piping csplit
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:27:59 -0600

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On 06/03/2011 03:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> But csplit is documented as requiring a single file name, followed by
> multiple patterns.
> 
> What you WANT to do is:
> 
> find . -name '*out' | \
>   xargs -I{} csplit {} '/All Frequencies/' '/Statistical'/

Or, ditch xargs altogether, and do it all through find:

find . -name '*out' -exec csplit {} "/All Frequencies/" /Statistical/ \;

which has the added benefit of avoiding problems with any *out files
that have embedded newlines.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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