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split text file into multiple files bash

#Split a file into 5 files. File is split such that each split has same size (except the last split):
split -n 5 filename

bash split file into multiple files

# Basic syntax:
split --lines=1000 --numeric-suffixes --suffix-length=2 input_file output_file_prefix
# Where:
#	- --lines=# is the number of lines to include per split file
#	- --numeric-suffixes tells split to use numbers on the output filenames
#	- --suffix-length=# tells split to use a numeric length of #, 
#		E.g. 2 = 00, 01, 02...
#	- output_file_prefix is the first part of the filename for every 
#		output file