how to split a file with N lines into equal number of lines files,

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How to split a split a file with N lines into eqaul number of lines.The program should take two arguments one the number of files to be split and other the file itself.Also if the N lines is not evenly divisible with number of files,the earlier files shoudl have one or two more lines.

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Re: how to split a file with N lines into equal number of lines files, by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 07, 2002 at 18:30 UTC
Sounds like homework	[reply]