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Danny Fang
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‎05-30-2005 11:07 PM

‎05-30-2005 11:07 PM

"Cutting" or Breaking-up a large file into several smaller files

Hi,
I have a fairly large ASCII text file (50MB) generated as log file from a program, and I wish to "cut" or break-up the file into smaller chunks in equal sizes.

Could someone show me what is the UNIX utility to perform such a task, and also an example of its usage?

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Danny.
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Muthukumar_5
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‎05-30-2005 11:17 PM

‎05-30-2005 11:17 PM

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Re: "Cutting" or Breaking-up a large file into several smaller files

You can use split utlity in hp-ux for this.

split -n

Check with split man page more options.

hth.
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renarios
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‎05-30-2005 11:20 PM

‎05-30-2005 11:20 PM

Re: "Cutting" or Breaking-up a large file into several smaller files

Hi Danny,

You can use the split command for it.
split -n

Check out the man page for more options (man split)

Cheerio,

Renarios
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Gopi Sekar
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‎05-30-2005 11:33 PM

‎05-30-2005 11:33 PM

Re: "Cutting" or Breaking-up a large file into several smaller files


use the split command.

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