Split concatenated certificates with awk

This is a short script that takes a list of concatenated certificates as input (such as a collection of CA certificates) and produces a collection of numbered files, each containing a single certificate. #!/bin/awk -f # This script expects a list of concatenated certificates on input and # produces a collection of individual numbered files each containing # a single certificate. BEGIN {incert=0} /—–BEGIN( TRUSTED)? CERTIFICATE—–/ { certno++ certfile=sprintf("cert-%d.crt", certno) incert=1 } /—–END( TRUSTED)?
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Parsing XML with Awk

Recently, changes from the xmlgawk project have been integrated into GNU awk, and xmlgawk has been renamed to gawkextlib. With both a recent (post-4.0.70) gawk and gawkextlib built and installed correctly, you can write simple XML parsing scripts using gawk. For example, let’s say you would like to generate a list of disk image files associated with a KVM virtual instance. You can use the virsh dumpxml command to get output like the following:
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