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How to split a large text file into smaller files with equal number of lines?
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I was wondering if it was possible to split a file into equal parts (edit: = all equal except for the last), without breaking the line? Using the split command in Unix, lines may be broken in half. Is there a way to, say, split up a file in 5 equal parts, but have it still only consist of whole lines (it's no problem if one of the files is a little larger or smaller)? I know I could just calculate the number of lines, but I have to do this for a lot of files in a bash script. Many thanks!
If you mean an equal number of lines, split
has an option for this:
split --lines=75
If you need to know what that 75
should really be for N
equal parts, its:
lines_per_part = int(total_lines + N - 1) / N
where total lines can be obtained with wc -l
.
See the following script for an example:
#!/usr/bin/bash
# Configuration stuff
fspec=qq.c
num_files=6
# Work out lines per file.
total_lines=$(wc -l <${fspec})
((lines_per_file = (total_lines + num_files - 1) / num_files))
# Split the actual file, maintaining lines.
split --lines=${lines_per_file} ${fspec} xyzzy.
# Debug information
echo "Total lines = ${total_lines}"
echo "Lines per file = ${lines_per_file}"
wc -l xyzzy.*
This outputs:
Total lines = 70
Lines per file = 12
12 xyzzy.aa
12 xyzzy.ab
12 xyzzy.ac
12 xyzzy.ad
12 xyzzy.ae
10 xyzzy.af
70 total
More recent versions of split
allow you to specify a number of CHUNKS
with the -n/--number
option. You can therefore use something like:
split --number=l/6 ${fspec} xyzzy.
(that's ell-slash-six
, meaning lines
, not one-slash-six
).
That will give you roughly equal files in terms of size, with no mid-line splits.
I mention that last point because it doesn't give you roughly the same number of lines in each file, more the same number of characters.
So, if you have one 20-character line and 19 1-character lines (twenty lines in total) and split to five files, you most likely won't get four lines in every file.
The script isn't even necessary, split(1) supports the wanted feature out of the box:
split -l 75 auth.log auth.log.
The above command splits the file in chunks of 75 lines a piece, and outputs file on the form: auth.log.aa, auth.log.ab, ...
wc -l
on the original file and output gives:
321 auth.log
75 auth.log.aa
75 auth.log.ab
75 auth.log.ac
75 auth.log.ad
21 auth.log.ae
642 total
split was updated in coreutils release 8.8 (announced 22 Dec 2010) with the --number option to generate a specific number of files. The option --number=l/n generates n files without splitting lines.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/split-invocation.html#split-invocation
http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6662
A simple solution for a simple question:
split -n l/5 your_file.txt
no need for scripting here.
From the man file, CHUNKS may be:
l/N split into N files without splitting lines
Update
Not all unix dist include this flag. For example, it will not work in OSX. To use it, you can consider replacing the Mac OS X utilities with GNU core utilities.
I made a bash script, that given a number of parts as input, split a file
#!/bin/sh
parts_total="$2";
input="$1";
parts=$((parts_total))
for i in $(seq 0 $((parts_total-2))); do
lines=$(wc -l "$input" | cut -f 1 -d" ")
#n is rounded, 1.3 to 2, 1.6 to 2, 1 to 1
n=$(awk -v lines=$lines -v parts=$parts 'BEGIN {
n = lines/parts;
rounded = sprintf("%.0f", n);
if(n>rounded){
print rounded + 1;
}else{
print rounded;
}
}');
head -$n "$input" > split${i}
tail -$((lines-n)) "$input" > .tmp${i}
input=".tmp${i}"
parts=$((parts-1));
done
mv .tmp$((parts_total-2)) split$((parts_total-1))
rm .tmp*
I used head
and tail
commands, and store in tmp files, for split the files
#10 means 10 parts
sh mysplitXparts.sh input_file 10
or with awk, where 0.1 is 10% => 10 parts, or 0.334 is 3 parts
awk -v size=$(wc -l < input) -v perc=0.1 '{
nfile = int(NR/(size*perc));
if(nfile >= 1/perc){
nfile--;
}
print > "split_"nfile
}' input
var dict = File.ReadLines("test.txt")
.Where(line => !string.IsNullOrWhitespace(line))
.Select(line => line.Split(new char[] { '=' }, 2, 0))
.ToDictionary(parts => parts[0], parts => parts[1]);
or
enter code here
line="to=xxx@gmail.com=yyy@yahoo.co.in";
string[] tokens = line.Split(new char[] { '=' }, 2, 0);
ans:
tokens[0]=to
token[1]=xxx@gmail.com=yyy@yahoo.co.in"