I have gone through all the threads in the forum and tested out different things. I am trying to split a 3GB file into multiple files. Some files are even larger than this.

For example:

This is very slow and it splits the file with 3 million records in each file. But I would like to give the number of files as a parameter and output the user defined file names and not xaa, xab and so on.

I am also trying awk and I know it will be very fast and simple. I read the forum and they are all splitting the files on a specific pattern and I don't require any pattern.

Please give me your input on this..