Perfect! I have been looking for just such a solution this morn and appreciate your post - here is one I just put together really quick ... to chunk up a given fasta file (unaligned sequences) in to N files for submission of multiple smaller jobs on a cluster: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $num_ch  = $ARGV[0] or die "must pass the # of chunks $!";
open (FH,"<$ARGV[1]")  or die "must pass the file name to make chunks 
+of $!";
my @lines = ();
$/ = ">";
while (<FH>){
        chomp;
        next if /^$/; # get rid of blank lines
        push @lines,">$_";
}
close FH;
my $num_rec = scalar(@lines);
print "number of records : $num_rec\n";
#die "Chunks exceed records!!" unless ($num_rec >= $num_ch);
sub write_em {
        my $output = shift()."_chunk.fa";
        my $ar_ref = shift;
        open (QRTR,">$output") or die "Cannot open $output : $!";
        print QRTR @$ar_ref;
        close (QRTR) or die "cannot close $output : $!";
}
my $cnt = 0;
my $rng = int($num_rec/$num_ch) + ($num_rec%$num_ch ? 1 : 0);
for (1..$num_ch) {
        write_em($_,[@lines[$cnt..($_ == $num_ch ? $#lines : ($cnt+($r
+ng-1)))]]);
        $cnt += $rng;
}

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Feel free to comment or point me in the right direction where I have gone astray - this just scratched a specific itch ...

In reply to Re: Private Utilities by l3v3l
in thread Private Utilities by Ovid

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