From: Bill Verzal (Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 15:25:47 EST
Use "wc" to count the lines and use "expr" to do the math for the "tail"
command.
BV
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"Adam Hanel" <hanela@BILLINGS.K12.MT.US>
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03/19/2003 02:25 PM
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Subject: Re: Shell stripting
What if the file grows periodically? Say 5-10 lines a week. I would
still
only want the first 69 lines, then the rest of the file, split into two
separate files.
-Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
Matt
Lawrence
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:59 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Shell stripting
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Adam Hanel wrote:
> I need to split a 901 line file, into two files. One file with the
first
69
> lines, and the second file with the remaining 832 lines.
head -69 <file>
tail -832 <file>
-- Matt
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