splitting files that has special characters in it

[zaq67]

Hi:
I have a file that contains thousands of lines that has null pointers in it. When I use sed to splt the file into several files, sed takes out the null pointers. IS there away to keep sed from altering the file. If not, what would you suggest to use instead of sed. the sed command I'm using is like this:
sed '1,5000p' testdata > file1.out. [sig][/sig]

 

[bigscouse]

For dake of argument, you have a file 1ith 6000 lines. Then the following command

split -1500 testdata outfile

will produce 4 files of 1500 lines named outfile.aa, outfile.ab, outfile.ac, outfile.ad


You could also try this :-
head -1500 testdata > file1.out (lines 0 - 1500)
head -3000 | tail -1500 > file2.out (lines 1501 - 3000) [sig]<p>Ged Jones<br><a href=mailto:gedejones@hotmail.com>gedejones@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>Top man[/sig]

 

[bigscouse]

Appologies for &quot;dake&quot; (sake) and &quot;1ith&quot; (with) [sig]<p>Ged Jones<br><a href=mailto:gedejones@hotmail.com>gedejones@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>Top man[/sig]

 

[zaq67]

Thanks Ged
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