How to Split Linux Log Files by Day or Month @ OCmodshop

Unless your admins took the extra care to automatically separate your log files by date, then you may have noticed one huge-*** log file in your web page's directory... especially if it isn't compressed.

In my case I had an 11.3GB log file sitting in my home directory, and I really needed to split it up into smaller files.

There's a very easy way to do this with the Linux command line.