From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2010-03-04T19:38:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting up a file

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Stuart Clarke
<stuart.clarke1986@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a quick question about breaking up a file into smaller files.
>
> I have a large file, quite like an mbox file in how it stores its data
> for example
>
> DATA
> stuff
> stuff
>
> DATA
> stuff
>
> DATA
> stuff
> stuff
>
> I don't want this information in one file, I want to break it up into
> single files, so the example above would give me three files. How would
> you suggest I go about this?

If you are on linux, you can use csplit:

csplit testsplit.txt /DATA/ "{*}"

(this will generate files named xx00, xx01, etc).

Jesus.