> yaz-marcdump allows you to break a > marcfile into chunks of x-records
+1 --Dave ================== David Walker Library Web Services Manager California State University http://xerxes.calstate.edu ________________________________________ From: Colin Campbell [colin.campb...@ptfs-europe.com] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 7:08 AM To: perl4lib@perl.org Subject: Re: Splitting a large file of MARC records into smaller files On 25/01/10 14:48, Nolte, Jennifer wrote: > Hello- > > I am working with files of MARC records that are over a million records each. > I'd like to split them down into smaller chunks, preferably using a command > line. MARCedit works, but is slow and made for the desktop. I've looked > around and haven't found anything truly useful- Endeavor's MARCsplit comes > close but doesn't separate files into even numbers, only by matching > criteria, so there could be lots of record duplication between files. If you have Indexdata's yaz installed the program yaz-marcdump allows you to break a marcfile into chunks of x-records. man yaz-marcdump for details Cheers Colin -- Colin Campbell Chief Software Engineer, PTFS Europe Limited Content Management and Library Solutions +44 (0) 208 366 1295 (phone) +44 (0) 7759 633626 (mobile) colin.campb...@ptfs-europe.com skype: colin_campbell2 http://www.ptfs-europe.com
