How to split large text file in windows

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I have a log file with size of 2 5 GB  Is there any way to split this file into smaller files using windows command prompt

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You can use the command split for this task  For example this command entered into the command prompt  split YourLogFile txt -b 500m   creates several files with a size of 500 MByte each  This will take several minutes for a file of your size  You can rename the output files  by default called  xaa    xab      and so on  to   txt to open it in the editor of your choice   Make sure to check the help file for the command  You can also split the log file by number of lines or change the name of your output files    tested on Windows 7 64 bit

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you can split using a third party software http   www hjsplit org   for example give yours input that could be upto 9GB and then split  in my case I split 10 MB each

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Set Arg   WScript Arguments set WshShell   createObject  Wscript Shell   Set Inp   WScript Stdin Set Outp   Wscript Stdout     Set rs   CreateObject  ADODB Recordset       With rs          Fields Append  LineNumber   4            Fields Append  Txt   201  5000           Open         LineCount   0         Do Until Inp AtEndOfStream             LineCount   LineCount   1              AddNew              Fields  LineNumber   value   LineCount              Fields  Txt   value   Inp readline              UpDate         Loop           Sort    LineNumber ASC           If LCase Arg 1      t  then             If LCase Arg 2      i  then                  filter    LineNumber  lt     amp  LCase Arg 3     1             ElseIf LCase Arg 2      x  then                  filter    LineNumber  gt     amp  LCase Arg 3               End If         ElseIf LCase Arg 1      b  then             If LCase Arg 2      i  then                  filter    LineNumber  gt     amp  LineCount - LCase Arg 3               ElseIf LCase Arg 2      x  then                  filter    LineNumber  lt     amp  LineCount - LCase Arg 3     1             End If         End If          Do While not  EOF             Outp writeline  Fields  Txt   Value               MoveNext         Loop     End With   Cut  filter cut  t b   i x  NumOfLines   Cuts the number of lines from the top or bottom of file   t - top of the file b - bottom of the file i - include n lines x - exclude n lines   Example  cscript  nologo filter vbs cut t i 5  lt    systemroot  win ini    Another way This outputs lines 5001   adapt for your use  This uses almost no memory   Do Until Inp AtEndOfStream          Count   Count   1          If count  gt  5000 then             OutP WriteLine Inp Readline          End If Loop

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If you have installed Git for Windows  you should have Git Bash installed  since that comes with Git  Use the split command in Git Bash to split a file   into files of size 500MB each  split myLargeFile txt -b 500m  into files with 10000 lines each  split myLargeFile txt -l 10000   Tips   If you don t have Git Git Bash  download at https   git-scm com download  If you lost the shortcut to Git Bash  you can run it using C  Program Files Git git-bash exe   That s it   I always like examples though    Example   You can see in this image that the files generated by split are named xaa  xab  xac  etc  These names are made up of a prefix and a suffix  which you can specify  Since I didn t specify what I want the prefix or suffix to look like  the prefix defaulted to x  and the suffix defaulted to a two-character alphabetical enumeration  Another Example  This example demonstrates  using a filename prefix of MySlice  instead of the default x   the -d flag for using numerical suffixes  instead of aa  ab  ac  etc      and the option -a 5 to tell it I want the suffixes to be 5 digits long

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Below code split file every 500  echo off setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION REM Edit this value to change the name of the file that needs splitting  Include the extension  SET BFN upload txt REM Edit this value to change the number of lines per file  SET LPF 15000 REM Edit this value to change the name of each short file  It will be followed by a number indicating where it is in the list  SET SFN SplitFile  REM Do not change beyond this line   SET SFX  BFN  -3   SET  A LineNum 0 SET  A FileNum 1  For  F  quot delims   quot    l in   BFN   Do   SET  A LineNum  1  echo   l  gt  gt   SFN  FileNum   SFX   if  LineNum  EQU  LPF    SET  A LineNum 0 SET  A FileNum  1      endlocal Pause  See below  https   forums techguy org threads solved-split-a-100000-line-csv-into-5000-line-csv-files-with-dos-batch 1023949

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Of course there is  Win CMD can do a lot more than just split text files     Split a text file into separate files of  max  lines each   Split text file  max lines each     Initialize set input file txt set max 10000  set  a line 1  gt nul set  a file 1  gt nul set out  file   input  set  a max  1  gt nul  echo Number of lines in  input   find  c  v     lt   input     Split file for  f  tokens   delims     i in   type   input      find  v  n      do    if  line    max    set  a line 1  gt nul set  a file  1  gt nul set out  file   input  echo Writing file   out     REM Write next file set a  i set a  a       echo  a  1  gt  gt out  set  a line  1  gt nul     If above code hangs or crashes  this example code splits files faster  by writing data to intermediate files instead of keeping everything in memory    eg  To split a file with 7 600 lines into smaller files of maximum 3000 lines    Generate regexp string pattern files with set command to be fed to  g flag of findstr   list1 txt        0-9         0-9  0-9         0-9  0-9  0-9         0-2  0-9  0-9  0-9      list2 txt        3-5  0-9  0-9  0-9      list3 txt        6-9  0-9  0-9  0-9       Split the file into smaller files     type   input     find  v  n      findstr  b  r  g list1 txt  gt  file1 txt type   input     find  v  n      findstr  b  r  g list2 txt  gt  file2 txt type   input     find  v  n      findstr  b  r  g list3 txt  gt  file3 txt     remove prefixed line numbers for each file split  eg  for the 1st file     for  f  tokens   delims     i in   type   cd  file1 txt    do   set a  i set a  a       echo  a  1  gt  gt file 1 txt     Notes   Works with leading whitespace  blank lines  amp  whitespace lines   Tested on Win 10 x64 CMD  on 4 4GB text file  5651982 lines

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