Bash Cookbook

How it works...

Before proceeding, notice that the type option (-t) on final-join.txt ignores \n newlines when reading in characters one at a time. Read suffices for the purpose of this recipe, but the reader should be aware that read/cat are not the best tools for this type of work.

1. Creating the script was trivial and for the most part shouldn't look like it came from the planet Mars.
2. Running the $ bash file-splitter.sh -i input-lines -t line -l 10 command should produce three files, all of which are input-lines {1,...,3}. The reason that there is three files is that if you used the same input, which is 22 lines long, it will produce three files (10+10+2). Using read and echo using a concatenated buffer (${BUFFER}), we can write to the ...