Hi,

iam having the file as follows:

ABCDEFGH|0987654321234567
ABCDEFGH|0987654321234523
ABCDEFGH|0987654321234556
ABCDEFGH|0987654321234545
POIUYTRE|1234567890890678
POIUYTRE|1209867757352567
POIUYTRE|5463879088797131
POIUYTRE|5468980091344456



pls provide me the split command


I want to split this abouve file as per the 1-8 character.

o/p file should

file1

ABCDEFGH|0987654321234567
ABCDEFGH|0987654321234523
ABCDEFGH|0987654321234556
ABCDEFGH|0987654321234545
file2
POIUYTRE|1234567890890678
POIUYTRE|1209867757352567
POIUYTRE|5463879088797131
POIUYTRE|5468980091344456

do u want ur file in two parts from the middle??

ur req "1-8 character." is not clear...
Pl explain..

as i said above after spliting process i need 2 seperate files file1 and file2

if ur file is same as u said..
thn use this..
split -l 4 file.txt

now there 'll be two files with names xaa and xab with the contents u want

Anchal.

For testing purpose i have given only 4 records,

actually it may be in lacs...what is the method in that case??

split -l is the best options, do a man on split and read the -l option.



The following options are supported:

-linecount | -l linecount
Number of lines in each piece. Defaults to 1000 lines.

1) wc filename ( one you know the total # of lines you can decide on splitting them in either 2 or 2 or n number of smaller files.

For example if your file has 100000 lines

split -l 50000 filename will give you two file xaa and xab with 50000 lines each.

if you do

split -l 20000 filename it will give you xaa, xab , xac, xad, xae files with exactly 20000 lines in each file.

I hope this helps.