In comp.unix.shell nobody@cares <superdu>:
> Hi,
> Being a beginner in Linux I hit this problem which I know can be
> solved by scripting. I recovered a bunch of files from a disk crash
> that contains all my emails but they were in 2 mb chunks and in no
> particular demarkation. So i combined them into one huge file.

No backup and using doze?

> To break them into smaller messages I need to search for a line say
> "---Next_Part ...blah bla ----
> an take everything between the two lines and create the new text
> file as 00000????.txt. Thats all that need to be done in order for

awk 'BEGIN{RS="---Next_Part"}{print $0 > "mail"NR}' infile

Something in the lines should do the trick.

Good luck

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