Hi all!
I am relatively new to UNIX staff, and I have come across a problem:
I have a big directory, which contains 100 smaller ones. Each of the 100 contains a file ending in .txt , so there are 100 files ending in .txt
I want to split each of the 100 files in smaller ones, which will contain 2000 lines each.
I think that 'split' command is what I must use, but I don't know how.
I go something like:

find . -name "*.txt" | .....

Any hints on the missing part? How can I apply the split command in each file, without entering each directory?
Thanx

Lets say you want to split your files into files of 10 lines each.

man split for other options.

Hi, thanx very much for your time.
Excuse my foolish question, but what are {} \ in your code?

find . -name '*.txt' -exec split -l 10 {} \;

I understand 'find - name '*.txt' ', I suppose -exec is for the system to execute a command, -l 10 I have found it in man split that are the arguments passed for split, but {} and \ I don't understand.
I tried your code, but it didn't work
I am sure that I am lacking something here, if you could just point it out...

Sorry, it needed :


find . -name '*.txt' -exec split -l 10 {} {} \;

Thanx again!

It may depend on your version on UNIX, but under HP-UX

is working fine!