SPLIT
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2011
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NAME
split - split a file into pieces
SYNOPSIS
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
- -e, --elide-empty-files
-
do not generate empty output files with `-n'
- --filter=COMMAND
-
write to shell COMMAND; file name is $FILE
- -l, --lines=NUMBER
-
put NUMBER lines per output file
- -n, --number=CHUNKS
-
generate CHUNKS output files. See below
- -u, --unbuffered
-
immediately copy input to output with `-n r/...'
- --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.
CHUNKS may be:
N split into N files based on size of input
K/N output Kth of N to stdout
l/N split into N files without splitting lines
l/K/N output Kth of N to stdout without splitting lines
r/N like `l' but use round robin distribution
r/K/N likewise but only output Kth of N to stdout
AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.
REPORTING BUGS
Report split bugs to
bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU 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 © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.shtml>.
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 'split invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
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