diff --git a/commands/linux.ipynb b/commands/linux.ipynb
index f1fa12b..54a84da 100644
--- a/commands/linux.ipynb
+++ b/commands/linux.ipynb
@@ -89,6 +89,81 @@
      "language": "python",
      "metadata": {},
      "outputs": []
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "markdown",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "## Splitting Files"
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "markdown",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "Count number of lines in a file with wc:"
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "code",
+     "collapsed": false,
+     "input": [
+      "wc -l < file.txt"
+     ],
+     "language": "python",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "outputs": []
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "markdown",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "Count the number of lines in a file with grep:"
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "code",
+     "collapsed": false,
+     "input": [
+      "grep -c \".\" file.txt"
+     ],
+     "language": "python",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "outputs": []
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "markdown",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "Split a file into multiple files based on line count:"
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "code",
+     "collapsed": false,
+     "input": [
+      "split -l 20 file.txt new"
+     ],
+     "language": "python",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "outputs": []
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "markdown",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "source": [
+      "Split a file into multiple files based on line count, use suffix of length 1:"
+     ]
+    },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "code",
+     "collapsed": false,
+     "input": [
+      "split -l 802 -a 1 file.csv dir/part-user-csv.tbl-"
+     ],
+     "language": "python",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "outputs": []
     }
    ],
    "metadata": {}