break up a large text file

[walid salah faroun]

I am hoping somebody can help me in a script that would take a large test file 280MB file with over 1.4 million lines and break it up into 12 or so files based on a 64999 lines per file.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

split -l 64999 myfile should do it for you. Man split for details.

[curt larson_1]

take a look at the split command

split -l 65000 fileName

[walid salah faroun]

Thanks for both of you - it's easy enough and did the job for me.