SPLIT
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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NAME
split - split a file into pieces
SYNOPSIS
split
[
,OPTION/]... [
,FILE /[
,PREFIX/]]
DESCRIPTION
Output pieces of FILE to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ...;
default size is 1000 lines, and default PREFIX is 'x'.
With no FILE, or when FILE 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 records per output file
- -d
-
use numeric suffixes starting at 0, not alphabetic
- --numeric-suffixes[=,FROM/]
-
same as -d, but allow setting the start value
- -x
-
use hex suffixes starting at 0, not alphabetic
- --hex-suffixes[=,FROM/]
-
same as -x, but allow setting the start value
- -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/records per output file
- -n, --number=,CHUNKS/
-
generate CHUNKS output files; see explanation below
- -t, --separator=,SEP/
-
use SEP instead of newline as the record separator;
'\0' (zero) specifies the NUL character
- -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/records
- l/K/N
-
output Kth of N to stdout without splitting lines/records
- 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 © 2017 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
Full documentation at: <
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/split>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) split invocationaq
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