SPLIT(1) | General Commands Manual | SPLIT(1) |
split |
[-a suffix_length] [-b byte_count[k|m ] | -l line_count -n chunk_count] [file [name]] |
The options are as follows:
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.
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.
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 6.1 |