One Day One GNU/Linux Command (SPLIT)

[Bharathi Subramanian]

One Day One GNU/Linux Command
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split - Split a file into pieces.

Summary:

Split is used to split a file into equal no .of lines. The output
files are created with the default Prefix as 'x' and suffix as 2
digit number.

Examples:

$ split -l 10 myfile -- Split myfile into files of 10 lines.

$ split -b 100 myfile -- Split myfile into files of 100bytes.

$ split -C 25 myfile -- Put at most 25bytes of lines per file.

$ split -a 4 myfile -- Use suffixe of length 4 chars.

$ split -l 10 myfile myfile -- Use myfile as the prefix text.

Read: man split

HTH :)
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Bharathi S