splitTextFile

Introduction

Inspired from GitHub article:

• How can I split a text file using PowerShell?

  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1001776/how-can-i-split-a-text-file-using-powershell

... and the answer from Typhlosaurus (https://stackoverflow.com/users/311372/typhlosaurus)

• http://stackoverflow.com/a/11010158/215200

... and awayken (https://stackoverflow.com/users/215200/awayken) who posted the following GitHub gist:

• awayken/Split-File.ps1

  https://gist.github.com/awayken/5861923

I wrote this because I needed to split large base64 text files.

Usage

This PowerShell script was created and tested with version 5.1 on Windows 10.

If/when/maybe I have time I will test on other platforms such as Ubuntu.

Execution

These examples asume the above PowerShell session.

Split base64 file by specifying only the input file

The script will assume an output file size of 1 MiB.

.\split_text_file_PowerShell5\Split_file_v2.ps1 -inFile myTestFile.b64

Split base64 file by specifying the input file and size of output file(s).

This example specifies that the output file size should be 2 MiB instead of the default 1 MiB.

.\split_text_file_PowerShell5\Split_file_v2.ps1 -inFile myTestFile.b64 -outputFileSize 2MB

Split base64 file by specifying the input file and name of output file(s).

.\split_text_file_PowerShell5\Split_file_v2.ps1 -inFile myTestFile.b64 -outFile fooFile.b64

Test and verify

This will have to wait until I create the corresponding script to put these split files back together.

Author

Andrew Nagy

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-e-nagy/