split (1)
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
- generate suffixes of length N (default 2)
- --additional-suffix=SUFFIX
- append an additional SUFFIX to file names.
- -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[=FROM]
- use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic. FROM changes the start value (default 0).
- -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 is an integer and optional unit (example: 10M is 10*1024*1024). Units are K, M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y (powers of 1024) or KB, MB, ... (powers of 1000).
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.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 © 2013 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 'split invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.