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From: stein-c@acsu.Buffalo.EDU (Craig Steinberger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: file too large
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Date: 19 Sep 89 14:39:48 GMT
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In article <2388@netcom.UUCP> beaulieu@netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu) writes:
 >I have a text file that is very large (26,000+ lines) and would like
 >to break it down to 5-6 smaller files. Is there an easy way to handle
 >this? I have tried vi but, it seems to hold 5000 lines in its buffer.
 >The same goes for ed and ex.

There is a program called csplit that should do the trick.