On Fri, 26 May 2006, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> Spake Paul M Foster on Friday, May 26, 2006 at 01:07AM -0400:
>> Here's what I need to do (sometimes): Take a text file and split it into
>> pieces. The split command won't work for this, because the pieces may
>> not be equal. For example, I may want to split an 8000 line file into
>> pieces 2000, 3000 and 3000 lines each. I'm willing to run the same
>> command multiple times with different parameters, but whatever I use
>> needs to be some common command expected to be there on any system. I've
>> looked at split, head and tail. I suspect I can do this with sed or awk,
>> but I'm not very familiar with those two, beyond rudimentary use. Can
>> anyone suggest a solution?
>>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use IO::File;
>
> die "usage: ginsu.pl file lines..." if @ARGV < 2;
See, some people denigrate perl as a "write-only language", but I find this
quite understandable. I couldn't write or debug it, but I can see about how
it works.
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