Bypassing csplit out of range error

[Michele (Mike) Alberton]

Hi !

I have the need to split a large column file in smaller files using regular expression patterns.

I've tried with csplit but since one of the args does not have a matching pattern in the original file the csplit exits with an out of range. I'm not able to control the content of the file, so that I have to assume a plain distribution of the strings. Is there any way to tell csplit to keep processing the arguments following the one which fails ?

Thanks a lot folks !

Mike

[Bernhard Mueller · Accepted solution]

Mike,

use grep -c for each pattern first, if not equal 0 you can include it as argument for cplit.

Regards,
Bernhard

[Michele (Mike) Alberton]

Yep, I got the same idea, and it's good, thanks a lot, and enjoy your points !

Mike