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split - split a file into pieces
split [OPTION] [INPUT [PREFIX]]
Output fixed-size pieces of INPUT to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ...; default
PREFIX is ‘x’. With no INPUT, or when INPUT is -, read standard input.
Mandatory
arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -a, --suffix-length=N
- use suffixes of length N (default 2)
- -b, --bytes=SIZE
- put SIZE bytes per output
file
- -C, --line-bytes=SIZE
- put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file
- -d, --numeric-suffixes
- use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic
- -l, --lines=NUMBER
- put NUMBER lines per output file
- --verbose
- print a diagnostic to standard
error just before each output file is opened
- --help
- display this help and
exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
SIZE may have a multiplier
suffix: b for 512, k for 1K, m for 1 Meg.
Written by Torbjorn Granlund
and Richard M. Stallman.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
The full documentation for split is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and split programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
- info split
should give you access to the complete manual.
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