Questions tagged [split]
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Split: how to split into different percentages?
How can I split a text file into 70% and 30% using the split command ?
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split not working as required?
I want to split a file into 'n' chunks, the suffixes should be of 'a' length and should using numeric suffixes starting from number 'd'.
e.g. n = 10, a=4, d=5, As all options look correct and I tried the below
split -n10 -a4 -d5 somefile
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Split a file into 8 files depending on the number of records
I have a file with 10K records and I need to divide it into 8 files.
I used split -n l/8 -d file1 file2. This will split the file into 8 files, but I need to divide the file into 8 depending on the data/records in it.
For example,
case $1
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Split a text file with customize name and size
I use Debian and I have a text file and I want to split that into several files with specific suffix name and size. I want split that file by n chunk therefore, I should use -n option. How can I do that with split command? Thanks
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How do I split text into rows and print its corresponding value?
I want to split a text into rows and print its value, for example, change this:
YLB; YLR; YLS (tab) 30
Into this:
YLB (tab) 30
YLR (tab) 30
YLS (tab) 30
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Line based chunking by size?
Github restricts file uploads to 100mb. This is unfortunate for public data. I know I can split binary files with dd. What I would like to do is split them all into 99MB files but here's the catch, I don't want to split on a line -- only a newline.…
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