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== How can I split a file into line ranges, e.g. lines 1-10, 11-20, 21-30? ==
Some Unix systems provide the {{{split}}} utility for this purpose:

{{{
    split --lines 10 --numeric-suffixes input.txt output-
}}}

For more flexibility you can use {{{sed}}}. The {{{sed}}} command can print e.g. the line number range 1-10:
{{{
    sed -n -e '1,10p' -e '10q'
}}}

This stops {{{sed}}} from printing each line ({{{-n}}}). Instead it only processes the lines in the range 1-10 ("1,10"), and prints them ("p"). The command will quit after reading line 10 ("10q").

We can now use this to print an arbitrary range of a file (specified by line number):

{{{
# POSIX shell
file=/etc/passwd
range=10
cur=1
last=$(wc -l < "$file") # count number of lines
chunk=1
while [ $cur -lt $last ]
do
    endofchunk=$(($cur + $range - 1))
    sed -n -e "$cur,${endofchunk}p" -e "${endofchunk}q" "$file" > chunk.$(printf %04d $chunk)
    chunk=$(($chunk + 1))
    cur=$(($cur + $range))
done
}}}

The previous example uses POSIX [[ArithmeticExpression|arithmetic]], which older [[BourneShell|Bourne shells]] do not have. In that case the following example should be used instead:

{{{
# legacy Bourne shell; assume no printf either
file=/etc/passwd
range=10
cur=1
last=`wc -l < "$file"` # count number of lines
chunk=1
while test $cur -lt $last
do
    endofchunk=`expr $cur + $range - 1`
    sed -n -e "$cur,${endofchunk}p" -e "${endofchunk}q" "$file" > chunk.$chunk
    chunk=`expr $chunk + 1`
    cur=`expr $cur + $range`
done
}}}

Awk can also be used to produce a more or less equivalent result:

{{{
 awk -v range=10 '{print > FILENAME "." (int((NR -1)/ range)+1)}' file
}}}
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Good day! Even though you've still got another op in front of you, I know you'll be up and rarin' to go for Brands because anyone that has achieved what you have since your accident, will make sure that it happens kitchen whens the next production?! http://smokeydevo.blogspirit.com/tag/chicken syrup, Very interesting.

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