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NAME
split - split a file into pieces
SYNOPSIS
split
[-lines] [-l lines] [-b bytes[bkm]] [-C bytes[bkm]] [--lines=lines]
[--bytes=bytes[bkm]] [--line-bytes=bytes[bkm]] [infile [outfile-prefix]]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
split.
split
creates one or more output files (as many as necessary) containing
consecutive sections of the
infile,
or the standard input if none is given or the name `-' is given.
By default,
split
puts 1000 lines of the input file, or whatever is left if it is less
than that, into each output file.
The output file names consist of a prefix followed by a group of
letters, chosen so that concatenating the output files in sorted order
by file name produces the original input file, in order. The default
output file name prefix is `x'. If the
outfile-prefix
argument is given, it is used as the output file name prefix instead.
OPTIONS
- -lines, -l lines, --lines=lines
-
Put
lines
lines of the input file into each output file.
- -b bytes[bkm], --bytes=bytes[bkm]
-
Put
bytes
bytes of the input file into each output file.
bytes
is a nonzero integer, optionally followed by one
of the following characters to specify a different unit.
-
- b
-
512-byte blocks.
- k
-
1-kilobyte blocks.
- m
-
1-megabyte blocks.
- -C bytes[bkm], --line-bytes=bytes[bkm]
-
Put into each output file as many complete lines of the input file as
is possible without exceeding
bytes
bytes. If a line that is longer than
bytes
bytes occurs, put
bytes
bytes of it into each output file until less than
bytes
bytes of the line are left, then continue normally.
bytes
has the same format as for the
--bytes
option.
The long-named options can be introduced with `+' as well as `--',
for compatibility with previous releases. Eventually support for `+'
will be removed, because it is incompatible with the POSIX.2 standard.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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