Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: file too large Summary: you can use sed Message-ID: <454@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 22 Sep 89 12:27:11 GMT References: <2388@netcom.UUCP> <2477@auspex.auspex.com> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 9 You can use sed to break it if you don't have any fancy tools. sed -n "1,1000p" big.file >part.1 Obviously you will want to pick the breakpoints by content. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon