Hi I'm new to Perl so I don't know how to do it that way.
Conceptually though, from a UNIX/LINUX generalised standpoint
cat filename | wc -l
Say this returns 80000
head -40000 filename > file1sthalf
tail -40000 filename > file2ndhalf
head -20000 file1sthalf > filename1stquarter
tail -20000 file1sthalf > filename2ndquarter
...iterate for file2ndhalf
...then cut the resulting 4 quarters into 8ths by same method
This doesn't count and evenly-distribute your >'s but it will give you 8 smaller files to play with.
This method is crude and not at all Perlesque but I just don't have the knowledge ... yet: I'd be interested to see the Perl code to do what I described.
Then run some Perl code to do your line of i th occurence
Rich
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In reply to Re: (tye)Re: get the line of ith occurrence of '>' without OPENING THE FILE by richardjfrench
in thread get the line of ith occurrence of '>' without OPENING THE FILE by Anonymous Monk

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