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Old 11-29-2009
Scripting help: Split a file into equal number of lines.
Experts,
I have a file datafile.txt that consists of 1732 Line,
I want to split the file into equal number of lines with 10 file.
(The last file can have 2 line extra to match 1732)

Please advise how to do that,

Thanks in advance..
# 2  
Old 11-29-2009
what have you tried? use wc to get number of lines. use split to split the file. check man page for their information.
# 3  
Old 11-30-2009
any single command?

---------- Post updated at 11:56 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:49 PM ----------

I found something like this: To split the file into 10 equl lines:

# split -l `wc -l filename | awk '{print $1/10}'` filename

cheers.
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