Splitting large text file on every blank line

Question

I\'m having a bit trouble of splitting a large text file into multiple smaller ones. Syntax of my text file is the following:

Answer 1

In case you get "too many open files" error as follows...

awk: whatever-18.txt makes too many open files
 input record number 18, file file.txt
 source line number 1

You may need to close newly created file, before creating a new one, as follows.

awk -v RS= '{close("whatever-" i ".txt"); i++}{print > ("whatever-" i ".txt")}' file.txt