Okay, absolute newbie here...

I'm on a Mac trying to split an almost 2 Gig log file on a Unix box into manageable chunks for my web-based log analysis tool.

What do I need to do, what programs do I need to do it?

All and any help appreciated/needed :-)

Cheers

Why, use the split command, of course!
See the split man page for details on use.

Note: It may be very important to stop the process creating the log file, if even for only a moment, while you work on the log. The best idea is to move the log file to another name, then create a new logfile with the same name for the webserver to write to. If the webserver tries to write to a log, and the log is locked for editing or doesn't exist, it can cause some problems.

"Split Man"... how do I find this?

Thanks for your help

Grant

Well, the command itself it called split. For more information on this, simply type:
man split
If split is installed on your system, it will display the manual page (hence the command 'man' - it's short for manual).

Hope that helps!

try this to slpit the file by each line.


slpit -i 300 -a1 filename

300 being how many lines per file

1 being the files will be named using xa xb xc xd xc etc....


if u use 2 xaa xbb xcc ( just gives you more files to play with)

have fun


man pages are good, but most times it looks like bad driving directions


enjoy

I'm going to give it all a go and let you know how it works out.

Can anyone give me one last pointer as to how to split the file by date?

Thanks all!!

Grant

You could check on the sort command..