SPLIT(1) | General Commands Manual | SPLIT(1) |
split
—
split |
[-a suffix_length]
[-b
byte_count[k|m ] |
-l line_count
-n chunk_count]
[file [name]] |
split
utility reads the given
file and breaks it up into files of 1000 lines each. If
file is a single dash or absent,
split
reads from the standard input.
file itself is not altered.
The options are as follows:
-a
-b
k
’ is appended to the number, the
file is split into byte_count kilobyte pieces. If
‘m
’ is appended to the number, the
file is split into byte_count megabyte pieces.-l
-n
If additional arguments are specified, the first is used as the
name of the input file which is to be split. If a second additional argument
is specified, it is used as a prefix for the names of the files into which
the file is split. In this case, each file into which the file is split is
named by the prefix followed by a lexically ordered suffix using
suffix_length characters in the range
“a-z
”. If -a
is not specified, two letters are used as the suffix.
If the name argument is not specified,
‘x
’ is used.
split
utility conforms to IEEE Std
1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”).
split
command appeared in
Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
The -a
option was introduced in
NetBSD 2.0. Before that, if
name was not specified, split
would vary the first letter of the filename to increase the number of
possible output files. The -a
option makes this
unnecessary.
May 28, 2007 | NetBSD 9.4 |