Comments on Linux Csplit Command Explained for Beginners (6 Examples)

While working on the command line in Linux, you may find yourself in situations where-in you need to split a file into multiple parts. If you are already looking for a way to do this, or simply want to know how this can be done, you'll be glad to know there exists a tool - dubbed csplit - that's built for this purpose.

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By: swanstro at: 2018-11-21 05:45:16

thanks for this! it works but maxes out at 100 files. If I have a spreadsheet that has 700--or 7000--lines, can this be adapted so that it will create 700--or 7000--new files?

By: Joe S at: 2018-12-04 22:55:10

Are you on a Mac? I had this same issue and had to install coreutils to get the gcsplit command instead. That one works with a * as the repeat argument.

You might not need all of these, you figure it out

brew install coreutils findutils gnu-tar gnu-sed gawk gnutls gnu-indent gnu-getopt

This is the command I ended up with:

gcsplit -b "%04d.txt" -f "" masterfile.tosplit /},/1 {*}