Thanks to Kit Baum, a new program, chunky, is now available for
download from SSC.
To install type -ssc install chunky-
chunky breaks a large text file into chunks. The typical context for
use would be when a researcher receives a huge data dump from a
database into a comma separated value data file that is too large to
insheet. chunky will allow serial chunking and then infiling or
insheeting and saving a subset of data. The smaller chunks can then be
appended together to create a full dataset.
--
David Elliott MD, MSc
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
-- Robert A. Heinlein (American science-fiction Writer, 1907-1988)
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