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:

sed -n '1,100p' filename > output.txt

Here, 1 and 100 are the line numbers which you will capture in output.txt.