Re: Unix : How to cut a file into pieces?

use combinations of head and tail and re-direct the output

head -10000 filename>filename2 puts 1st 10000 lines into filename2 tail +10001 filename|head -10000>filename3 puts next 10000 lines into=  filename3

etc....see man pages for more info

At 09:44 AM 7/27/00 -0800, Veronica Levin wrote:
>I was wondering if there is a way to cut a 63MB text file into small pieces
>without opening it with vi.
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