Situation: I have a tool/command (tool.pl) that accepts max 5 hostnames as @ARGV. I have a file that contains hostnames, each host in a newline. There are 12 hosts in the file. How can I split the hostnames in the file to pass them to tool.pl with 5 hostnames as arguments

host1
host2
host3
host4
host5
host6
host7
host8
host9
host10
host11
host12

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During the first iteration expected

 tool.pl host1 host2 host3 host4 host5

Second iteration

 tool.pl host6 host7 host8 host9 host10

Third iteration

 tool.pl host11 host12

Thanks for the help in advance

In reply to split on every n lines by sunil9009

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