Dear friends:
I have a datafile contains 1 to 40 lines or i can be varied between 1 to 40. I want to split the datafile into smaller files:
if the datafile has 40 lines or more,
file1 contains line 1 to 12
file2 contains line 13 to 25
file3 contains line 26 to 28
file4 contains line 29... (4 Replies)
i WANT TO SPLIT A FILE WHICH HAS 250 COLUMNS. and the delimiter is '|'. So , can somebody help me with the command i have to use to split the file into two files.
thanks (7 Replies)
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)
Hello,
Here is another one. The file type is almost same, many lines and many fields. What I need to do is to extract each line of old file and make it a new file, and in the new file, the field1 will be file name and the rest of field will be transpose to line.
Say,
1, field1 field2 ... (8 Replies)
Hello,
i have a very big file that has more then 80 MBytes (100MBytes). So with my CVS Application I cannot commit this file (too Big) because it must have < 80 MBytes.
How can I split this file into two others files, i think the AIX Unix command :
split -b can do that, buit how is the right... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a data file xyz.dat similar to the one given below,
2345|98|809||x|969|0
2345|98|809||y|0|537
2345|97|809||x|544|0
2345|97|809||y|0|651
9685|98|809||x|321|0
9685|98|809||y|0|357
9685|98|709||x|687|0
9685|98|709||y|0|234
2315|98|809||x|564|0
2315|98|809||y|0|537... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file of the following syntax that has around 120K records that are tab separated.
input.txt
abc def klm 20 76 . + . klm_mango unix_00000001;
abc def klm 83 84 . + . klm_mango unix_0000103;
abc def klm 415 439 . + . klm_mango unix_00001043;
I am looking for an awk oneliner... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I do have a fixedwidth flatfile that has data for 10 different datasets each identified by the first two digits in the flatfile.
01 in the first two digit position refers to Set A
02 in the first two digit position refers to Set B and so on
I want to genrate 10 different files from my... (6 Replies)
Good day all
I need some helps,
say that I have data like below, each field separated by a tab
DATE NAME ADDRESS
15/7/2012 LX a.b.c
15/7/2012 LX1 a.b.c
16/7/2012 AB a.b.c
16/7/2012 AB2 a.b.c
15/7/2012 LX2 a.b.c... (2 Replies)
OS : RHEL 6.7
Shell : bash
I have a text file with 5.97 million lines.
I want to split this big file into 12 different files (in sequential order) so that each file will contain roughly 500K lines. I tried the following awk command after googling. But, it just created 2 files... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: omega3
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
split
SPLIT(1) User Commands SPLIT(1)NAME
split - split a file into pieces
SYNOPSIS
split [OPTION]... [INPUT [PREFIX]]
DESCRIPTION
Output fixed-size pieces of INPUT to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ...; default size is 1000 lines, and default PREFIX is `x'. With no INPUT, or
when INPUT is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a, --suffix-length=N
use suffixes of length N (default 2)
-b, --bytes=SIZE
put SIZE bytes per output file
-C, --line-bytes=SIZE
put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file
-d, --numeric-suffixes
use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic
-e, --elide-empty-files
do not generate empty output files with `-n'
--filter=COMMAND
write to shell COMMAND; file name is $FILE
-l, --lines=NUMBER
put NUMBER lines per output file
-n, --number=CHUNKS
generate CHUNKS output files. See below
-u, --unbuffered
immediately copy input to output with `-n r/...'
--verbose
print a diagnostic just before each output file is opened
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of following: KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T,
P, E, Z, Y.
CHUNKS may be: N split into N files based on size of input K/N output Kth of N to stdout l/N split into N files without
splitting lines l/K/N output Kth of N to stdout without splitting lines r/N like `l' but use round robin distribution r/K/N like-
wise but only output Kth of N to stdout
AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.
REPORTING BUGS
Report split bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report split translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for split is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and split programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils 'split invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 SPLIT(1)