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chop file in vi
Move the cursor to the last line of Part 1.
Type Vgg to select the first part, and :w Part1.md<cr> to save that section to the first file.
Press `>j, which will move the cursor to the first line of Part 2.
Type VG to select the second part, and :w Part2.md<cr> to save that section to the second file.
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jdamick commented Oct 26, 2017

https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/487/how-do-i-break-a-file-into-two

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