cut a number of lines out of a file

networkfre@k · #1 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005

Hi,

I have a text file contaning around 150 lines, each line is a hostname.
I want to read 4 lines/hostnames and save those 4 lines to a seperate file.
say the big file is /files/bigfile and I want to have a lot of files in /files named
/files/smallfile.1 , /files/smallfile.2 and so on...

I have no idea how to do this

Thanks

futurelet · #2 (**permalink**) 12-09-2005

Code:

awk '{print >("smallfile" int((NR+3)/4))}' bigfile

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