Split a file into multiple files in Linux

Splitting a file into multiple files

In this we will attempt to split a file into multiple files (4 files in this case)

Firstly, we are getting total number of lines in actual file using "wc" command

total_lines=$(wc -l < tables.lst)

lines_per_file=$(( (total_lines + 3) / 4 ))  # Add 3 to handle any remainder in the division

split -l $lines_per_file tables.lst output_prefix_