topic Re: split files with formatted output name in Operating System - HP-UX

split files with formatted output name

Anand_30 — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:59:24 GMT

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

Re: split files with formatted output name

Rodney Hills — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:08:08 GMT

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

Re: split files with formatted output name

Jeff_Traigle — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:10:12 GMT

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

Re: split files with formatted output name

Jeff Schussele — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:14:43 GMT

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