SPLIT

 

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

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 explanation 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

The SIZE argument is an integer and optional unit (example: 10K is 10*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

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report split translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 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.