What???  Everyone DOESN'T instinctively
think to do

sed -n '1,99p' < infil >foo.01
sed -n '100,199p' < infil >foo.02
sed -n '200,299p' < infil >foo.03
sed -n '300,399p' < infil >foo.04
sed -n '400,499p' < infil >foo.05

???

FWIW, split (at least my flavor) has
a "-l" option to split a file based on
line count instead of byte count.

Never tried it on a Mac file, tho.....


D

* On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 08:00:58AM -0700, sinck@ugive.com wrote:
> 
> 
> \_ Can you help me out?
> Which way did you come in?  :-)
> 
> \_ How are you splitting your files, I am in need of away to take a large plain
> \_ text database report and break it up into small pieces.
> 
> In this case, split isn't your friend, since it doesn't care about
> line breaks, which, presumably your plain text database does.
> 
> Try successive runs of tail and head, or the following perl script
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> # invoke: thisfile.pl file_to_split
> 
> # YMMV
> 
> $lines = 100;      # how many lines/file
> $outfile = "xaa";  # base
> 
> open (F, "> $outfile");  # initial
> while (<>)
> {
>    print F;
>    if (! ($. % $lines))
>    {
>       close (F);
>       $outfile++;  # perl magic
>       open (F, "> $outfile");
>    }
> }	
> close(F);
> 
> 
> # David
> 
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