too many files. how to solve

abarone wrote:

Solved adding -a 3 to the split command defining the length of the suffix ....

split -d -l5000 -a 5 transaction.csv trans.

I can not tell from your post if the man page was of help to resolve the issue

nor do I see the complete command line...(?)

abarone wrote:

I'm on a MacBookPro with M1Max.

I have a large text file with over 10 Million transactions.

That's too large to insert into the database at once, so I decided to split.

I did `split -d -l5000 transaction.csv trans.` and it runs without problems on linux, where it created exactly 2000 files. I also tried to split into smaller files and the result was having much more files, without problems.

When running the same command on MacOS Monterey, it returns the error `split: too many files`

I tried with `ulimit -n 6000` but still doesn't run.

Any help will be appreciated

See if there is anything from the man page:

 man split | more

look at the examples for various options...

Terminal User Guide for Mac - Apple Support