1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a large file(csv format) that I need to split into 2 files. The file looks something like Original_file.txt first name, family name, address a, b, c, d, e, f, and so on for over 100,00 lines I need to create two files from this one file. The condition is i need to ensure... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a large file with a repeating pattern in it. Now i want the file split into the block of patterns with a specified no. of lines in each file. i.e. The file is like 1... 2... 2... 3... 1... 2... 3... 1... 2... 2... 2... 2... 2... 3... where 1 is the start of the block... (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

HI, i've to split a large file which inputs seems like : Input file name_file.txt 00001|AAAA|MAIL|DATEOFBIRTHT|....... 00001|AAAA|MAIL|DATEOFBIRTHT|....... 00002|BBBB|MAIL|DATEOFBIRTHT|....... 00002|BBBB|MAIL|DATEOFBIRTHT|....... 00003|CCCC|MAIL|DATEOFBIRTHT|.......... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Everyone, I have a large file that needs to be split into many seperate files, however the text in between the blank lines need to be intact. The file looks like SomeText SomeText SomeText SomeOtherText SomeOtherText .... Since the number of lines of text are different for... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a 3 GB text file that I would like to split. How can I do this? It's a giant comma-separated list of numbers. I would like to make it into about 20 files of ~100 MB each, with a custom header and footer. The file can only be split on commas, but they're plentiful. Something like... (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi , I have a requirement input file: 1 1111111111111 108 1 1111111111111 109 1 1111111111111 109 1 1111111111111 110 1 1111111111111 111 1 1111111111111 111 1 1111111111111 111 1 1111111111111 112 1 1111111111111 112 1 1111111111111 112 The output should be, (19 Replies)

7. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Dear Users, Appreciate your help if you could help me with splitting a large file > 1 million lines with sed or awk. below is the text in the file input file.txt scaffold1 928 929 C/T + scaffold1 942 943 G/C + scaffold1 959 960 C/T +... (6 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I have received a file which is 20 GB. We would like to split the file into 4 equal parts and process it to avoid memory issues. If the record delimiter is unix new line, I could use split command either with option l or b. The problem is that the line terminator is |##| How to use... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a perl script which splits a large file into chunks.The script is given below use strict; use warnings; open (FH, "<monolingual.txt") or die "Could not open source file. $!"; my $i = 0; while (1) { my $chunk; print "process part $i\n"; open(OUT, ">part$i.log") or die "Could... (4 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Trying to split a 35gb file into 1000mb parts. My research shows I should you this. split -b 1000m file.txt and my return is "split: cannot open 'crunch1.txt' for reading: No such file or directory" so I tried split -b 1000m Documents/Wordlists/file.txt and I get nothing other than the curser just... (3 Replies)