Assistance with 'split -l' command

Assistance with 'split -l' command

[Gary Vaughan]

I am working with csv files and when I perform the split -l, it splits the fioe correctly, but is putting the 'aa','ab','ac' after the file extension.  Would love to know how to get it after the file name before the file extension.
 as an exampole, command split -l 5000 /desktop/ESM.csv /desktop/ESM.csv
is resulting ESM/csvaa and would like it to be ESMaa.csv


Gary Vaughan
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Re: Assistance with 'split -l' command

[René Berber]

On 8/11/2020 6:57 PM, Gary Vaughan via Cygwin wrote:

> I am working with csv files and when I perform the split -l, it
> splits the fioe correctly, but is putting the 'aa','ab','ac' after
> the file extension.  Would love to know how to get it after the file
> name before the file extension. as an exampole, command split -l 5000
> /desktop/ESM.csv /desktop/ESM.csv is resulting ESM/csvaa and would
> like it to be ESMaa.csv

`man split` is your friend.

Try: split -l 5000 --additional-suffix=.csv /desktop/ESM.csv 
/desktop/ESM.csv ESM

(all in one line)

It means split ... with resulting prefix "ESM", and suffix ".csv").

The command you show has default prefix x, no sufix, then the result 
should have been xaa, xab, xac, etc.
-- 
R. Berber

Re: Assistance with 'split -l' command

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Gary Vaughan!

> I am working with csv files and when I perform the split -l, it splits the
> file correctly, but is putting the 'aa','ab','ac' after the file extension.

Be very careful to use generic text tools on CSV files.
On any non-textual files, actually.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 18:22:46

Sorry for my terrible english...

Re: Assistance with 'split -l' command

[Gary Vaughan]

Thank you for the reply and information.


Gary Vaughan
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Greetings, Gary Vaughan!

> I am working with csv files and when I perform the split -l, it splits the
> file correctly, but is putting the 'aa','ab','ac' after the file extension.

Be very careful to use generic text tools on CSV files.
On any non-textual files, actually.


--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 18:22:46

Sorry for my terrible english...

Re: Assistance with 'split -l' command

[Mark Hansen]

On 8/12/2020 8:24 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Gary Vaughan!
> 
>> I am working with csv files and when I perform the split -l, it splits the
>> file correctly, but is putting the 'aa','ab','ac' after the file extension.
> 
> Be very careful to use generic text tools on CSV files.
> On any non-textual files, actually.
> 
> 

I agree with your comment regarding non-text files, but a CSV file is a textual file.