Shell command to split large file into 10 smaller files

Question

I have a csv import file with 33 million lines that need to be imported into my database. I can import it with a C# console app but then the stored procedures that run after the

Answer 1

Use split - e.g. to split a file every 3.4 million lines (should give you 10 files):

split -l 3400000

$ man split