split – Split a file into pieces.
Summary :
Split is used to split a file into equal no .of lines. The output files are created with the default Prefix as ‘x’ and suffix as 2 digit number.
Examples :
$ split -l 10 myfile — Split myfile into files of 10 lines.
$ split -b 100 myfile — Split myfile into files of 100bytes.
$ split -C 25 myfile — Put at most 25bytes of lines per file.
$ split -a 4 myfile — Use suffixe of length 4 chars.
$ split -l 10 myfile myfile — Use myfile as the prefix text.
Read : man split