Bash Cookbook

How to do it...

Open a terminal and create a script named file-splitter.sh.

The following is the code snippet:

#!/bin/bashFNAME=""LEN=10TYPE="line" OPT_ERROR=0set -ffunction determine_type_of_file() {  local FILE="$1"  file -b "${FILE}" | grep "ASCII text" > /dev/null  RES=$?  if [ $RES -eq 0 ]; then    echo "ASCII file - continuing"      else    echo "Not an ASCII file, perhaps it is Binary?"  fi }

Next, run file-splitter.sh with this command and flags ( -i, -t, -l):

$ bash file-splitter.sh -i input-lines -t line -l 10

Review the output and see what the difference is with -t size and when -l line is used. What about when -l 1 or -l 100 is used? Remember to remove the split files using $ rm input-lines.*:

$ rm input-lines.*$ bash file-splitter.sh -i input-lines ...