On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a need that's not satisfied with split, but which split could do. >At present, I'm doing it in Perl (and that's probably adequate for what >I need to do). > >Contemplate a document such as one returned by this command: >wget -O /tmp/houses.html \ > > "http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=qfp&cat=House&p=200&s=wa&o=p&t=res&id=6285}"; > >That will produce a list of homes available for purchase in a region >become famous for Fine Wines. > >The document has a heap of junk top and bottom, and some identifiable >material between the descriptions of individual homes. > >What I suggest is that split be enhanced to provide a means of splitting >based on content.
Have you looked at csplit? Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
