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Old 03-22-2008
Splitting a Larger File Into Mutiple Smaller ones.
Hello..

Iam in need to urgent help with the below.

Have data-file with 40,567 [some random num,which is greater that 40,000]
and need to split them into multiple files with smaller line-count.

Iam aware of "split" command with -l option which allows you to specify the no of lines in smaller files ,with the target file-name pattern but catch is i also need to store the exact names of smaller file names and also the no of files.

Can you folks assit me here plz.

Thx,
Madhu
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Old 03-22-2008
Create a new directory.
Then cd to that directory
Then run split as
#split -l1000 /u/abc/filename
Then all the output and only the output will be in the current directory.
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