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Contents How Do You Split a Large File into Smaller Parts in Unix? If You Use the -L (A Lowercase L) Option, Replace Linenumber with the Number of Lines You’d...
How do you split a large file into smaller parts in Unix?
If you use the -l (a lowercase L) option, replace linenumber with the number of lines you’d like in each of the smaller files (the default is 1,000). If you use the -b option, replace bytes with the number of bytes you’d like in each of the smaller files.
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To split a file into pieces, you simply use the split command. By default, the split command uses a very simple naming scheme. The file chunks will be named xaa, xab, xac, etc., and, presumably, if you break up a file that is sufficiently large, you might even get chunks named xza and xzz.
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