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# This code is only for use under adult supervision. Proceed at your own risk.

#!/bin/bash

ORIGIFS=$IFS

# set $IFS to end-of-line

IFS=`echo -en “\n\b”`

if ( !$1 )

then

echo ‘usage: batch.command Name_Of_MM_Export_To_Process’;

break;

fi

for l in $(cat $1 )

do

if `echo ${l} | grep  ”Student” 1>/dev/null 2>&1`

#this line is the header, start a new output file

then

file=$(($file+1))

echo $l > $file.txt

echo -n ‘.’

else

# this line is not a header, write it to the current file

echo $l >> $file.txt

fi

done;  # end the loop

# return the original IFS

IFS=$ORIGIFS

n=0 ; for i in $(ls) ; do mv $i $(cat $i | head -n 2 | tail -n 1 | cut -d, -f2 | tr ‘ ‘ ‘_’ | tr ‘/’ ‘-’ | tr -d ‘”‘)–$n.txt ; n=$(($n+1)) ; done