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Amrita
Amrita

Reputation: 25

Splitting file in bash

I have a .TXT file containing account numbers. Sample: TRV001 TRV002 TRV003 TRV004... The values are separated by space. I want to split this file containing first 1000 account numbers in one file and next 1000 accounts in the next file using bash.These account numbers are coming from a report so we don't know how many account number are we going to get in the file.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 82

Answers (2)

Amrita
Amrita

Reputation: 25

Thanks all for help, I was able to work it out. I changed the format of the file to have only one account number per line of the file and then used split -l 1000 to split the files.

Upvotes: 0

Raman Sailopal
Raman Sailopal

Reputation: 12877

Assuming the source file is called acc, you can use awk piped through to split

awk '{ for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) { print $i } }' acc | split -l 1000

For field in each line, print the field on a separate line using awk and then put the output in separate files (default prefix x) using split

Upvotes: 1

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