Hi everyone,

I have some large text files that I need to split into a specific number of files of equal size. As far as I know (and I don't really know that much ) the split command only lets you specify the number of lines or bytes. The files are all of a different size, so the number of lines differ as well.
I use the following code to see how many lines each output file should be (1/50 of the original document):

y=`wc | awk '{ print $x/50}' | awk -F. '{if($2>=1){print $1+1}else{print $1}}'`
echo $y

The problem is that I can't use this variable $y as input for the split command like this:

split $x -d -l $y split/$x

It simply doesn't work. Does anyone know a way to pass the value of the $y variable into the split command? Or does anyone have a better way of solving the entire problem?

Thanks in advance!