I’ve been working with Linux operating systems for a few years now and it never amazes me how many facets this operating system contains. Think of something you’d like to do and there is surely some utility built into the OS that will do it. If that doesn’t work, pipe one utility into another.

Introducing ’split’, a command-line utility to split a file into parts by byte count, number of lines at a max of a number of bytes or by number of lines.

Go ahead and try it…’man split’ on your local unix/linux based system. You’ll see the options available to you for taking a large file and breaking it into something more managable.