breaking the flat file

[ranga1970]

Hi I am getting zipped file and its attached .mkr file as my flatfile source, the files are huge and it taking lot of time to load, for testing purpose, I would like break the file in small fiels and loadthem and test them, if the test is successful then i want to load the full file, is there a way to do this, or Should ask the person who send me file to send me the small test file
thanks

[kcbland]

Use the unix program "head" and specify how many lines from the top of the file you want. Alternatively, "tail" gives you lines from the bottom. You can make any size file you want.

[chulett]

Or set a Row Limit when you run the job. On the 'Limits' tab you can tell it to stop the job after processing X rows.

[scottr]

but the best is googleing for some unix file comands