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Old 04-06-2013
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Originally Posted by hanson44
I never suggested the script would work on an excel spreadsheet. The script is designed to operate on a text file, as I made clear by providing an example.

The poster just said "file". You're right to assume an xls file "should be" a spreadsheet. But maybe the poster gives text files an xls extension for some odd reason of their choosing. They will have to clarify.

If it is a spreadsheet (100 million rows? Smilie), the poster could of course convert it to a csv or tsv file first, and change the xls extension in the script to "csv" or "tsv".
Yes. And your awk script is logically equivalent to the awk script mjr provided that Diya23 already said does not work.

Based on those earlier postings I made the wild assumption that the 1000 .xls files Diya23 wants to create actually come from a HUGE excel spreadsheet as an input file.

Of course, another possibility is that there just isn't enough space to create two copies of the 100,000,000 row (line) text file in the current directory/filesystem.

We'll have to wait for more information from Diya23 to determine what is really going on.
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Old 04-06-2013
I too was under the impression that it was a text file, not an Excel file. The Excel file would need to be first exported to a text/delimited file or, alternatively, a VBA/macro could be used to split the file within Excel without the need for a Unix solution.
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