anneb@ai.etl.army.mil (Anne Brink) (07/04/90)
Yesterday, I asked for insight into splitting a long file up that split refused
to handle. Thanks to everyone who replied. Solutions included:
1) get a new version of split (found on uunet in bsd-sources/src/usr.bin/
(info courtesy Jonathan Kamens at MIT, posted yesterday)
2) use a perl script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$out = "xaa";
while (read(STDIN,$foo,32768)) {
open(OUT, '>' . $out++); print OUT $foo;
}
(script courtesy Larry Wall, also posted yesterday)
3) several people suggested using dd with the skip= and count= options
4) Do something with compress and pipe through a filter that will put in
newlines
4) nroff the file
(from Michael Kosmin)
5) judicious use of tr changing a recurrent character into a \n
(also from several people)
Once again, thanks! Now, to work chopping up files......
-Anne
anneb@etl.army.mil
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