#!/bin/bash
 
# check if an input filename was passed as a command
# line argument:
if [ ! $# == 1 ]; then
  echo "Please specify the name of a file to split!"
  exit
fi
 
# create a directory to store the output:
mkdir output
 
# create a temporary file containing the header without
# the content:
head -n 1 $1 > header.csv
 
# create a temporary file containing the content without
# the header:
tail +2 $1 > content.csv
 
# split the content file into multiple files of 5 lines each:
split -l 1 content.csv output/data_
 
# loop through the new split files, adding the header
# and a '.csv' extension:
for f in output/*; do cat header.csv $f > $f.csv; rm $f; done;
 
# remove the temporary files:
rm header.csv
rm content.csv