SPLIT
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: June 2012
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NAME
split - split a file into piecesSYNOPSIS
split [OPTION]... [INPUT [PREFIX]]DESCRIPTION
Output fixed-size pieces of INPUT to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ...; default size is 1000 lines, and 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 just before each output file is opened
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of following: KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.
AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.REPORTING BUGS
Report split bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.orgGNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report split translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
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 coreutils aqsplit invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.
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