I need to Run the split command in a script with numer of lines to split as parameter1 and input file name as parameter2 additionally the script should reside is some other directory other than the current or working directory as I will end up deleting the working/current directory after picking up the splitted files.
The split filenames should have 3 digit prefix and the input file name example : 001_abc.txt, 002_abc.txt e.t.c
I have gone through all the threads in the forum and tested out different things. I am trying to split a 3GB file into multiple files. Some files are even larger than this.
For example:
split -l 3000000 filename.txt
This is very slow and it splits the file with 3 million records in each... (10 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a requirement .I want to split a file and the split files should have certain names.
Currently when i use the split command
split -1000 testdata testdata_
Then the output is
testdata_aa
testdata_bb
testdata_cc
and so on.
But i want the output as
testdata1.snd... (3 Replies)
I have a file test1.html like below:
<dctm_topnav_en_US>
<html>
.....
</html>
<dctm_topnav_en_CA>
<html>
.....
</html>
<dctm_topnav_en_FR>
<html>
.....
</html>
I need to use awk to split this into three file names like en_US.html ,
en_CA.html, en_FR.html each having content between... (4 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I am trying to write an if statement that will split a file if it is over 1 million records/lines into files with say 900,000 records and then rename
those files without the aaa, aab, aac format that splitting normally does and into a specific naming convention. For instance, if... (2 Replies)
I have a file named Me_thread_spell.txt that I want to split into smaller files. I want it to be split in each place there is a ;;;. For example,
blah blah blah ;;;
blah bhlah hlabl
awasnceuir
asenduhfoijhacseiodnbfxasd;;;
oabwcuhaweoir;;;
This full file would be three separate files... (7 Replies)
Hello;
I have a file consists of 4 columns separated by tab. The problem is the third fields. Some of the them are very long but can be split by the vertical bar "|". Also some of them do not contain the string "UniProt", but I could ignore it at this moment, and sort the file afterwards. Here is... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a data file like below
messageid|email|timestamp
750452173|123@googlemail.com|2013-05-24 16:14:32
750464921|000@gmail.com|2013-06-13 19:38:01
750385426|001@googlemail.com|2013-01-06 12:06:36
750373470|000@wz.eu|2012-11-30 22:32:07
.
.
I want to split the files based on the... (4 Replies)
Hello,
Need to split files into n number of files and rename the files
Example:
Input:
transaction.txt.1aa
transaction.txt.1ab
......
Output:
transaction.txt.1
transaction.txt.2
transaction.txt.3 (3 Replies)
Hello,
I'm using Windows 7 ; sed, awk and gnuwin32 are installed.
I have a big text file I need to manipulate.
In short, I will have to split it in thousands of short files, then rename and save in a folder which name is based upon filename.
Here is a snippet of my big input.txt file (this... (4 Replies)
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)
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split
split(1) General Commands Manual split(1)NAME
split - split a file into pieces
SYNOPSIS
line_count] suffix_length] [file [name]]
nsuffix_length] [file [name]]
Obsolescent
n] [file [name]]
DESCRIPTION
reads file and writes it in pieces (default 1000 lines) onto a set of output files. The name of the first output file is name with
appended, and so on lexicographically, up to (only ASCII letters are used, a maximum of 676 files). If no output name is given, is the
default.
If no input file is given, or if is given instead, the standard input file is used.
Options
recognizes the following command-line options and arguments:
The input file is split into pieces
line_count lines in size.
suffix_length letters are used to form the suffix of the output filenames. This option allows creation of more than 676 output
files. The output file names created cannot exceed the maximum file name length allowed in the directory containing
the files.
The input file is split into pieces
n bytes in size.
The input file is split into pieces
n x 1024 bytes in size. No space separates the n from the
The input file is split into pieces
n x 1048576 bytes in size. No space separates the n from the
The input file is split into pieces
n lines in size. This option is obsolescent and is equivalent to using the option.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the locale for the interpretation of text as single- and/or multi-byte characters.
determines the language in which messages are displayed.
If or is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default for each unspecified or empty
variable. If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of
If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to "C". See
environ(5).
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
SEE ALSO csplit(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE split(1)