linux - Add blank line between lines from different groups

Question

I have a file A of the form (frequency,file name,code lines):

1 file_name1 code_line1
2 file_name2 code_line2
2 file_name2 code_line3
2 file_name3 code_line4
2 file_name3 code_line5
3 file_name4 code_line6
3 file_name4 code_line7
3 file_name4 code_line8

I want output B as:

1 file_name1 code_line1

2 file_name2 code_line2
2 file_name2 code_line3

2 file_name3 code_line4
2 file_name3 code_line5

3 file_name4 code_line6
3 file_name4 code_line7
3 file_name4 code_line8

Basically the file A contains file name and code lines from the file and the first field is the frequency, i.e., number of code lines in the file.

I am supposed to go through these code lines file wise. I am finding it tedious and it would be easier for me if there was a line gap between entries of different files, hence the desired output.

Answer 1

Awk could do it:

awk '{if(NR > 1 && $2 != prev_two){printf "
";} prev_two=$2; print $0}' A

A being the file name.