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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers splitting the large file into smaller files Post 302258933 by vsnreddy on Sunday 16th of November 2008 05:35:42 PM
Old 11-16-2008
splitting the large file into smaller files

hi all
im new to this forum..excuse me if anythng wrong.

I have a file containing 600 MB data in that. when i do parse the data in perl program im getting out of memory error.

so iam planning to split the file into smaller files and process one by one.

can any one tell me what is the code will do for spliting the bigger file.

what is the better way to achieve this ?
 

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zipnote(1)						      General Commands Manual							zipnote(1)

NAME
zipsplit - split a zipfile into smaller zipfiles SYNOPSIS
zipsplit [-t] [-i] [-p] [-s] [-n size] [-r room] [-b path] [-h] [-v] [-L] zipfile ARGUMENTS
zipfile Zipfile to split. OPTIONS
-t Report how many files it will take, but don't make them. -i Make index (zipsplit.idx) and count its size against first zip file. -n size Make zip files no larger than "size" (default = 36000). -r room Leave room for "room" bytes on the first disk (default = 0). -b path Use path for the output zip files. -p Pause between output zip files. -s Do a sequential split even if it takes more zip files. -h Show a short help. -v Show version information. -L Show software license. DESCRIPTION
zipsplit reads a zipfile and splits it into smaller zipfiles. EXAMPLES
To be filled in. BUGS
Does not yet support large (> 2 GB) or split archives. SEE ALSO
zip(1), unzip(1) AUTHOR
Info-ZIP v3.0 of 8 May 2008 zipnote(1)
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