Hello people,
I have a huge file of say 1 gb called A123.txt..
to get the word count, i do
wc -l A123.txt
This gives me a count of say 122898.
Now what i do is, i divide this by 4 ie. 122888/4=30722
Now i copy the content as per the above count (30722) and give some name to each of the 4 files, since the size is too huge...
How can i do this with some script.
Hi,
which script do you need perl??
Cheers,
Ranga:)
No need for Perl,
man split
yes, we can with split.
split -l 5000 inputfile outputfile
split input file into 5000 line
also split by byte with -b option
Cheers,
Ranga:)
no no i dont need perl script, unix script is ok......
What i need is to automate the process...
like
1.The script will read the wc -l count and then divide it into 4 and then according to the division it will name the files accordingly.
Hi,
Then you can use split function to split file into pieces.
please refer man split.
Cheers,
Ranga:)
I tried but unable to do it..
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Done...many thanks...