Re: [PLUG] chopping files

["Randy Schmidt" <x@altorg.com>]

If you just split a file used to load a db...won't that split up the
sql in a possibly inconvenient location that may break the sql
statements? Could you split it up into individual tables?

On 11/8/06, Kyle R. Burton <kyle.burton@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/8/06, Jeff Watson <redgibson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a utility i can use to chop a large text file into x number of
> > smaller peices of the same file? I am loading a database and i think the
> > file size is an issue so i want to cut it into peices and load them
> > individually?
>
> The split(1) command might be what you're after.  It can split a file
> based on bytes, or by lines (if it's text).
>
> hth
>
> Kyle
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