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[How to split a file by size but keeping full lines] #bash #file

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 $ split -C 15M --numeric-suffixes --suffix-length=4 input_filename output_filename_without_suffix

creates files like output_filename_without_suffix0001 output_filename_without_suffix0002 output_filename_without_suffix0003 ... each of max size 15 megabytes.

More here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2016894/how-to-split-a-large-text-file-into-smaller-files-with-equal-number-of-lines