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split - split a file into pieces
split [OPTION] [INPUT [PREFIX]]
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 have a multiplier suffix: b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000,
M 1024*1024, GB 1000*1000*1000, G 1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E,
Z, Y.
Written by Torbj?rn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2008 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.
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 ’split invocation’
should give you access to the complete manual.
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