It's not really clear why you can't use the variable. The way it is now, I don't think it contains a useful value (what does the echo print for you?) but fixing the scripts so it works sounds like the best plan unless you can explain why it "simply doesn't work".
Assuming $x is the name of the file you are about to split, try something like this instead.
I put in the addition of one on the theory that this should do something vaguely useful even with files which are too small, with a slight bias towards making the last file in the series smaller than the others. (Maybe divide by 49 instead to compensate?)
I have been googling on the 'split' unix command to see if it can split a large file into 'n' number of files. Can anyone spare an example or a code snippet?
Thanks,
- CB (2 Replies)
Dear All,
I would like to split a file of the following format into multiple files based on the number in the 6th column (numbers 1, 2, 3...):
ATOM 1 N GLY A 1 -3.198 27.537 -5.958 1.00 0.00 N
ATOM 2 CA GLY A 1 -2.199 28.399 -6.617 1.00 0.00 ... (3 Replies)
I am getting a few gzip files into a folder by doing ftp to another server. Once I get them I move them to another location .But before that I need to make sure each gzip is not more than 5000 lines and split it up . The files I get are anywhere from 500 lines to 10000 lines in them and is in gzip... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to unix. we have a requirement here to split a single file into multiples files based on the number of people available for processing. So i tried my hand at writing some code as below.
#!/bin/bash
var1=`wc -l $filename`
var2=$var1/$splitno
split -l $var2 $1
Please help me... (6 Replies)
hi, i really need it ...it's not simple to explain but as it's part of a crontab i can't split the file manually...and the file can change every day so the lines are not a good base.
example: how to split 1 csv file in 15 files?
thank you very much
regards :b: (4 Replies)
Hello Friends,
Can anyone help me for the below requirement.
I am having a file called Input.txt.
My requirement is first check the count that is wc -l input.txt
If the result of the wc -l Input.txt is less than 10 then don't split the Input.txt file. Where as if Input.txt >= 10 the split... (12 Replies)
Hello,
I've searched this forum and others for a solution to my problem but nothing seems just right, I'm hoping I can get some help (seems like this should be easy, and I apologize if I've missed something on the forum):
I have several large .fastq DNA sequence files (~20million reads,... (2 Replies)
We have a folder XYZ with large number of files (>350,000). how can i split the folder and create say 10 of them XYZ1 to XYZ10 with 35,000 files each. (doesnt matter which files go where). (12 Replies)
Hello All,
May i please know how do i ensure my split command would NOT generate incomplete output files like below, the last lines in each file is missing some columns or last line is complete.
split -b 50GB File File_
File_aa
|551|70210203|xxxxxxx|12/22/2010 20:44:58|11/01/2010... (1 Reply)
i use the split command to split a one terabyte backup file into 10 chunks of 100 GB each. The files are split one after the other. While the files is being split, I will like to scp the files one after the other as soon as the previous one completes, from server A to Server B. Then on server B ,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: malaika
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split
SPLIT(1) BSD General Commands Manual SPLIT(1)NAME
split -- split a file into pieces
SYNOPSIS
split [-a suffix_length] [-b byte_count[k|m]] [-l line_count] [-p pattern] [file [name]]
DESCRIPTION
The split utility reads the given file and breaks it up into files of 1000 lines each. If file is a single dash ('-') or absent, split reads
from the standard input.
The options are as follows:
-a suffix_length
Use suffix_length letters to form the suffix of the file name.
-b byte_count[k|m]
Create smaller files byte_count bytes in length. If ``k'' is appended to the number, the file is split into byte_count kilobyte
pieces. If ``m'' is appended to the number, the file is split into byte_count megabyte pieces.
-l line_count
Create smaller files n lines in length.
-p pattern
The file is split whenever an input line matches pattern, which is interpreted as an extended regular expression. The matching line
will be the first line of the next output file. This option is incompatible with the -b and -l options.
If additional arguments are specified, the first is used as the name of the input file which is to be split. If a second additional argument
is specified, it is used as a prefix for the names of the files into which the file is split. In this case, each file into which the file is
split is named by the prefix followed by a lexically ordered suffix using suffix_length characters in the range ``a-z''. If -a is not speci-
fied, two letters are used as the suffix.
If the name argument is not specified, the file is split into lexically ordered files named with the prefix ``x'' and with suffixes as above.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LC_COLLATE environment variables affect the execution of split as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The split utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO csplit(1), re_format(7)STANDARDS
The split utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
A split command appeared in Version 3 AT&T UNIX.
BUGS
The maximum line length for matching patterns is 65536.
BSD August 21, 2005 BSD