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Split A Large File

How to split a large file. 

split -b 500MB httpd.log
ll -lh
total 1.9G
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 954M Mar 25 12:35 httpd.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 477M Mar 25 12:38 xaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 477M Mar 25 12:38 xab

Split with an output file.

split -b 200M httpd.log split.log
ll -lh
total 1.9G
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 954M Mar 25 12:35 httpd.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200M Mar 25 12:52 split.logaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200M Mar 25 12:52 split.logab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200M Mar 25 12:52 split.logac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200M Mar 25 12:52 split.logad
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154M Mar 25 12:52 split.logae

Tail A File in Windows Server

Linux has tail command. What about Windows? You can use Powershell to tail a file.

Get-Content myLog.log –Wait

Convert File to UTF-8

Here’s how to convert multiple files to UTF-8 format.

for file in *.csv; do
    iconv -f ascii -t utf-8 "$file" -o "${file%.txt}.utf8.csv"
done