On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 20:27:25 -0600, sam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Now I want to take a 300meg file and break it up into smaller files I can > read with text readers. > > I just can not find how to read one file - write it out to lets say 40 files > I want to read by line for a given # of lines (I will have to just guess at > this), > then when I get to that # start writing to file 2 then to file 3 when I get > to 2 * the # then 3 *..... > figure there should be some way to set up an array (file0....file40), The 'split' command might do what you want.
