File content too long

cghcgh · 07-06-2008, 10:40 PM

Hi,

I have a file that is for example 10000 lines. I want to put the first 100 lines into a file called 'A' and the rest into a file called 'B'. The problem is that when i vi or view it, it will say the file is too long. The content for file B is 1 single line...so i think it's not safe to more the file then copy the content over and join the lines up. Pls kindly advise.

THanks.

Mr. C. · 07-06-2008, 10:59 PM

10,000 lines is not too long. It sounds more like this is a DOS file that has different line terminators, so it looks like one very long line.

If this is so, convert with dos2unix.

Once that is done, you can do:

head -100 yourfile > A
sed -n '101,$p' yourfile > B

syg00 · 07-06-2008, 11:07 PM

Small typo there methinks - p'haps "tail -n +101 ..." might be better (as in easier understood).

Mr. C. · 07-06-2008, 11:33 PM

Oops, fixed the 11 -> 101 in the edit above.

I picked sed just to show the usage of another tool.