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Date:      Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:23:44 -1000
From:      Gary Dunn <gdunng@mac.com>
To:        Matt Schlosser <mschlosser@eschelon.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: file splitting
Message-ID:  <00111710415402.03598@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil>
In-Reply-To: <C1781C38F13DA040848FEFAD07311B1036D6C6@walleye.corp.fishnet.com>
References:  <C1781C38F13DA040848FEFAD07311B1036D6C6@walleye.corp.fishnet.com>

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On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Matt Schlosser wrote:
> What would be the fastest method of splitting a text file (200MB) into 20MB
> sections while keeping line length intact?
> 

An approximate solution:

wc myfile
output: lines, words, chars
200/20 = 10, so
compute linesPerPiece as lines/10
split -l linesPerPiece myfile 


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