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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Breaking large file into small files Post 302937447 by gandolf989 on Thursday 5th of March 2015 12:46:05 PM
Old 03-05-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by RavinderSingh13
Hello emily/gandolf989,

If we need to split a file according to lines let's say 10'000 lines per file then following may help.
Code:
awk '{FILENAME="file"int((NR-1)/10000);print >> FILENAME}' Input_file

Thanks,
R. Singh
There seems to be a magic awk command for almost every problem.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
Well, gandolf989, that appears to be a poor suggestion given that split will do this all in a single operation....
csplit might be a far better tool, I just haven't used it. There is certainly a size file where head/tail just won't work, but for many files it might work well enough.
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