How to split a text file by lines on Linux?

How to split a text file by lines on Linux? For example, to split a file content.txt into many files and each split contains 1024 lines.

You can use the split command on Linux:

split -l 1024 content.txt splitted-content.txt-

It will generate splitted-content.txt-{aa,ab,….}

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