You are lucky that I like people splitting hairs. There is a system command which oes precisely what you want. You can name it anything but "mladen". Here is the source code: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Getopt::Long; # Parse command line options my $numlines = 66; my $prefix = "sheeps"; my $file; my ( $cnt_line, $cnt_file ) = ( 0, 1 ); my $chunk; my $stat = GetOptions( "n|numlines=s" => \$numlines, "p|prefix=s" => \$prefix, "f|file=s" => \$file, "h|help|?" => \&usage ); open( INF, "<", $file ) or die "Cannot open $file for reading:$1\n"; while (<INF>) { if ( $cnt_line == 0 ) { $chunk = $prefix . "_" . $cnt_file; open( OUTF, ">", $chunk ) or die "Cannot open $chunk for writing:$!\n"; $cnt_file++; } print OUTF; $cnt_line++; if ( $cnt_line == $numlines ) { close OUTF; $cnt_line = 0; } } print "File $file split in $cnt_file pieces\n"; sub usage { print STDERR qq(USAGE:$0 -f <file> -p <piece prefix> -n <lines per piece> Default for the piece prefix is "sheeps". Default for the maximum number of lines per piece is 66. The "file" argument is mandatory.); exit(0); } -- Mladen Gogala A & E TV Network Ext. 1216 > -----Original Message----- > From: Manjula Krishnan [mailto:oradba_la@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 10:26 AM > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Splitting Files (AIX 5.2) > > > I am trying to split some text files. I know I can use split command. > > Here's what I have done: > > split -l 66 -a 4 93_11_w2.prt 93_11_w2_ > > What this will do is split the original file (93_11_w2.prt) > into 66 line chunks and each chunk will be named > 93_11_w2_aaaa, 93_11_w2_aaab, 93_11_w2_aaac.... > > Is there any way I can make this split the files and name them: > > 93_11_w2_0001, 93_11_w2_0002, 93_11_w2_0003, .... > > Thanks, > > Manjula > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! > > -- > To unsubscribe - > mailto:oracle-l-> request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe > To > search the > archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/