troubleshooting Question
Need to split up a large patterned text file into multiple text files.
Chad Killion asked on
Hello,
I have a 5200 line text file full of DNS zone information. It is formatted such with line 1 being the SOA record, and the last 2 lines of the zone are "Success..." and then "----" and then it repeats with the next zone. An example of the top 2 records looks like the following:
I would like a powershell script that will take my file as in input, then split the file into multiple text files saved to a specific path. The file name should be the very first word on line1 (domain1.com.text and domain2.com.text in the scenario above), then they should contain all lines up to the "Success:, and the following------" lines. Those can be discarded. So after processing the script given the text file above, I would be left with the following:
c:\temp\domain1.com.txt which would look like:
and c:\temp\domain2.com.text which would look like:
I think I will end up with a few hundred text files, but this would save me a ton of time! Thanks in advance!
I have a 5200 line text file full of DNS zone information. It is formatted such with line 1 being the SOA record, and the last 2 lines of the zone are "Success..." and then "----" and then it repeats with the next zone. An example of the top 2 records looks like the following:
domain1.com. SOA dauth5.server.com. contact.domain1.com. 2018020603 10800 3600 604800 10800
webmail.domain1.com. CNAME domain1.com.
domain1.com. NS dauth5.server.com.
domain1.com. MX 10 mail3.serverhosting.com.
domain1.com. A 255.255.138.2
mail.domain1.com. CNAME mail3.serverhosting.com.
pop.domain1.com. CNAME pop.serverhosting.com.
domain1.com. MX 10 mx1-us1.ppe-hosted.com.
www.domain1.com. CNAME domain1.com.
domain1.com. NS dauth6.server.com.
domain1.com. MX 20 mx2-us1.ppe-hosted.com.
smtp.domain1.com. CNAME smtp.serverhosting.com.
SUCCESS: Getting information for Domain 'domain1.com' complete.
---------------
domain2.com. SOA dauth5.server.com. admin.server.com. 2018052503 900 600 86400 10800
domain2.com. A 192.168.255.2
domain2.com. MX 20 mx2-us1.ppe-hosted.com.
domain2.com. MX 10 mx1-us1.ppe-hosted.com.
www.domain2.com. CNAME domain2.com.
mail.domain2.com. CNAME mail4.serverhosting.com.
domain2.com. NS dauth5.server.com.
domain2.com. NS dauth6.server.com.
SUCCESS: Getting information for Domain 'domain2.com' complete.
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I would like a powershell script that will take my file as in input, then split the file into multiple text files saved to a specific path. The file name should be the very first word on line1 (domain1.com.text and domain2.com.text in the scenario above), then they should contain all lines up to the "Success:, and the following------" lines. Those can be discarded. So after processing the script given the text file above, I would be left with the following:
c:\temp\domain1.com.txt which would look like:
domain1.com. SOA dauth5.server.com. contact.domain1.com. 2018020603 10800 3600 604800 10800
webmail.domain1.com. CNAME domain1.com.
domain1.com. NS dauth5.server.com.
domain1.com. MX 10 mail3.serverhosting.com.
domain1.com. A 255.255.138.2
mail.domain1.com. CNAME mail3.serverhosting.com.
pop.domain1.com. CNAME pop.serverhosting.com.
domain1.com. MX 10 mx1-us1.ppe-hosted.com.
www.domain1.com. CNAME domain1.com.
domain1.com. NS dauth6.server.com.
domain1.com. MX 20 mx2-us1.ppe-hosted.com.
smtp.domain1.com. CNAME smtp.serverhosting.com.
and c:\temp\domain2.com.text which would look like:
domain2.com. SOA dauth5.server.com. admin.server.com. 2018052503 900 600 86400 10800
domain2.com. A 192.168.255.2
domain2.com. MX 20 mx2-us1.ppe-hosted.com.
domain2.com. MX 10 mx1-us1.ppe-hosted.com.
www.domain2.com. CNAME domain2.com.
mail.domain2.com. CNAME mail4.serverhosting.com.
domain2.com. NS dauth5.server.com.
domain2.com. NS dauth6.server.com.
I think I will end up with a few hundred text files, but this would save me a ton of time! Thanks in advance!
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