How to split a large text file into smaller files with equal number of lines?

Question

I\'ve got a large (by number of lines) plain text file that I\'d like to split into smaller files, also by number of lines. So if my file has around 2M lines, I\'d like to

Answer 1

use split

Split a file into fixed-size pieces, creates output files containing consecutive sections of INPUT (standard input if none is given or INPUT is `-')

Syntax split [options] [INPUT [PREFIX]]

http://ss64.com/bash/split.html