[chuug] using csplit

[David Clymer]

If I want to split a file into several smaller ones at each line
starting with "b", such that the lines starting with "b" do not appear
in the split out files, how do i get csplit to do this?

given a file that looks like this:

a
b
a
a
c
d
b
d
d
a
g

doing:

$ csplit foo /^b/ '{*}'

gives me:

a
---
b
a
a
c
---
b
d
d
d
a
g

How do I split this into files such as this ("--" indicating a new
file):

a
---
a
a
c
---
d
d
d
a
g


Is this possible to do using only csplit? I know I could do it in other
ways, but somehow I expect that a tool such as this should be able to do
it, and I am just overlooking something obvious.

-davidc
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