There exists an application designed for this: dirsplit
It usually lives in cdrkit or dirsplit packages.
It can create ready-to-use folders with links to easily create DVDs with K3b or other GUI software
Here's a solution that could work:
seq 1 $(((lines=$(wc -l </tmp/file))/16+1)) $lines |
sed 'N;s|\(.*\)\(\n\)\(.*\)|\1d;\1,\3w /tmp/uptoline\3\2\3|;P;$d;D' |
sed -ne :nl -ne '/\n$/!{N;bnl}' -nf - /tmp/file
It works by allowing the first sed to write the second sed's script. The second sed first gathers all input lines until it encounters a blank line. It then writes all output lines to a file. The first sed writes out a script for the second one instructing it on where to write its output. In my test case that script looked like this:
1d;1,377w /tmp/uptoline377
377d;377,753w /tmp/uptoline753
753d;753,1129w /tmp/uptoline1129
1129d;1129,1505w /tmp/uptoline1505
1505d;1505,1881w /tmp/uptoline1881
1881d;1881,2257w /tmp/uptoline2257
2257d;2257,2633w /tmp/uptoline2633
2633d;2633,3009w /tmp/uptoline3009
3009d;3009,3385w /tmp/uptoline3385
3385d;3385,3761w /tmp/uptoline3761
3761d;3761,4137w /tmp/uptoline4137
4137d;4137,4513w /tmp/uptoline4513
4513d;4513,4889w /tmp/uptoline4889
4889d;4889,5265w /tmp/uptoline5265
5265d;5265,5641w /tmp/uptoline5641
I tested it like this:
printf '%s\nand\nmore\nlines\nhere\n\n' $(seq 1000) >/tmp/file
This provided me a file of 6000 lines, which looked like this:
<iteration#>
and
more
lines
here
#blank
...repeated 1000 times.
After running the script above:
set -- /tmp/uptoline*
echo $# total splitfiles
for splitfile do
echo $splitfile
wc -l <$splitfile
tail -n6 $splitfile
done
OUTPUT
15 total splitfiles
/tmp/uptoline1129
378
188
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline1505
372
250
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline1881
378
313
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline2257
378
376
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline2633
372
438
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline3009
378
501
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline3385
378
564
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline3761
372
626
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline377
372
62
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline4137
378
689
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline4513
378
752
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline4889
372
814
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline5265
378
877
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline5641
378
940
and
more
lines
here
/tmp/uptoline753
378
125
and
more
lines
here
Best Answer
Must it be done with
wc? Because here I've ran into a very nice attempt to use regex as acsplitpattern. I don't have a system to test it right now but the regex itself seem to do the job.The expression looks like that: