in reply to Split file into 4 smaller ones
May I recommend the Unix utility split (1)?
NAME split -- split a file into pieces SYNOPSIS split [-a suffix_length] [-b byte_count[k|m] | -l line_count -n chunk_count] [file [name]] DESCRIPTION The split utility reads the given file and breaks it up into files of 1000 lines each. If file is a single dash or absent, split reads from the standard input. file itself is not altered. The options are as follows: [...] -n Split file into chunk_count smaller files.
Okay, maybe that was a bad suggestion. The GNU version does not have a split-to-n-chunks feature, it seems.
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