need help on unix

[Ray Jones]

In <1991Jun14.140007.6242 at sci34hub.sci.com> gary at sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:

>In article <1991Jun11.005723.22179 at unixg.ubc.ca> wangf at unixg.ubc.ca (Frank Wang) writes:
>>Is that possible to delete some lines from a file (the file is so large that  
>>it's impossible to use any editor) without evoking any editors?

>You can use dd to break the file into two or more parts, using the count
>and skip options:


>Nice program, dd. My thanks to whoever in the depths of AT&T wrote it.

I agree, dd is a nice program, however, there is a utility program made
just for this kind of problem.  The program is "split" used to split
large files into smaller files.  The syntax is:
	split -n filename
where n is the number of lines per smaller file.  If n is not specified,
the default is 1000 lines.

The resultant filenames will have the name appended with .aa .ab ....zz 
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