split files with formatted output name

[Anand_30]

Hi,

I have to split a big file into a number of smaller files. I know that split command will do the trick for me but my requirement is that the output files should be suffixed with 0,1,2,3...(example out1, out2, out3...) and not aa,ab like what split does.

Can anyone please help me.

Thanks,
Andy

[Rodney Hills]

Here's a one line perl script. It will break up the files into 100 lines each.

cat bigfile | perl -pe 'open(STDOUT,">out".++$cnt) unless ($.-1) % 100;'

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Jeff_Traigle]

Or see if csplit(1) will work for you... it appends numbers instead of letters according to the man page.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Andy,

You might try the csplit command & use -f prefix. For example:

-f out

will result in out00 out01 out02 etc.

man csplit for further details.

HTH,
Jeff