I want to split a file containg HTTP response into two files: one containing only HTTP headers, and one containg the body of a message. For this I need to split a file into two on first empty line (or for UNIX tools on first line containing only CR = '\r
' character) using a shell script.
How to do this in a portable way (for example using sed, but without GNU extensions)? One can assume that empty line would not be first line in a file. Empty line can got to either, none or both of files; it doesn't matter to me.
$ cat test.txt
a
b
c
d
e
f
$ sed '/^$/q' test.txt
a
b
c
$ sed '1,/^$/d' test.txt
d
e
f
Change the /^$/
to /^\s*$/
if you expect there may be whitespace on the blank line.