Splitting a file in to multiple files and passing each individual file to a command

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have an input file with contents like:
MainFile.dat:

12247689|7896|77698080
16768900|hh78|78959390
12247689|7896|77698080
16768900|hh78|78959390
12247689|7896|77698080
16768900|hh78|78959390
12247689|7896|77698080
16768900|hh78|78959390
12247689|7896|77698080
16768900|hh78|78959390

I need to split this file in to 10 with each having extension as _temp1,_temp2,_temp3 and so on

and pass each of this file to a 10 processes each to a process:

RemoveUsage File1
RemoveUsage file2
RemoveUsage file3

etc..

Can anyone help me in this :frowning:

2

Each line to a single file? What file names to be used besides the extension? What 10 processes ".. each process"? I do not really understand what you want, sorry. Maybe describe a bit more so that others that do not know what you want to do get a chance to understand to minimize guessing, thanks.
Btw: What have you tried so far?

3

The file is 0f about 6000 lines I want to split the file into 10 files so that each file may be having around 600 lines.

The divided files need to be passed as a argument to a tool which takes the input as filename and process it.
RemoveUsage <fileName>

as there are 10 such files I need 10 processess to run parallely with each processing a file.

4

Try this...

split -b 230 input_file
for file in x*
do
  RemoveUsage $file &
done

230 is the size of 10 lines... it is based on the input you have pasted...

--ahamed

5

The size of the line may vary here...the input file may contain different line sizes..what to do in this case :frowning: