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

The version of split in coreutils 8.8 (not yet released) will have the command

split -n l/10

For now you'll need to specify a particular number of lines per file