Splitting file based on line numbers

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This script will be useful if you require to split a huge file based on number of lines or records. Normal file splitters available in the market split the file based on the size (byte, KB, MB) which cannot be used to split based on number of lines or records.
Steps to use the script:

1. Save the below script as lsplit.ksh

   propDIR=./ propFile=$propDIR/SSNRange.txt.prop inpFile=$1 date startLineNo=1 count=1 while read line do startLineNo=`echo $line | cut -f1 -d,` endLineNo=`echo $line | cut -f2 -d,` if [ "$endLineNo" != "" -a "$startLineNo" != "" ]; then echo "Cut here from $startLineNo to $endLineNo" sed -n "$startLineNo","$endLineNo"p $inpFile > $inpFile.split.$count count=`expr $count + 1` fi done < $propFile date

2. Create a properties file SSNRange.txt.prop which would contain the range of records or lines. Example of properties file is as follows
   

   1 2 3

   1,400 401,1504 1505, 7000

3. Run the script

   1	$ lsplit.ksh infile.txt

4. Three output files will be created
   • infile.txt.split.1 –> Creates a file with first 400 lines
   • infile.txt.split.2 –> Creates a file with lines starting from 401 to 1504
   • infile.txt.split.3 –> Creates a file with lines starting from 1505 to 7000

Advantages of this script:

• File is split based on line numbers are records.
• No manual editing is required the correct the first and last records
• Easy to handle it in batch