How to split a large file into multiple smaller files in Linux

Answer:

If you have a very large file and want to split into multiple smaller files, split command can do the job for you.

# split -l 10 text.txt

The above command split the file text.txt into a multiple files (xaa, xab, xac...), which contains at most 10 lines per file.

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