NAME
split - Create output files containing consecutive or interleaved sections of input
SYNOPSIS
split [OPTION]... [INPUT [PREFIX]]
DESCRIPTION
Create output files containing consecutive or interleaved sections of input
OPTIONS
- -b, --bytes <SIZE>
-
put SIZE bytes per output file
- -C, --line-bytes <SIZE>
-
put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file
- -l, --lines <NUMBER> [default: 1000]
-
put NUMBER lines/records per output file
- -n, --number <CHUNKS>
-
generate CHUNKS output files; see explanation below
- --additional-suffix <SUFFIX> [default: ]
-
additional SUFFIX to append to output file names
- --filter <COMMAND>
-
write to shell COMMAND; file name is $FILE (Currently not implemented for Windows)
- -e, --elide-empty-files
-
do not generate empty output files with '-n'
- -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
- -a, --suffix-length <N>
-
generate suffixes of length N (default 2)
- --verbose
-
print a diagnostic just before each output file is opened
- -t, --separator <SEP>
-
use SEP instead of newline as the record separator; '\0' (zero) specifies the NUL character
- -h, --help
-
Print help
- -V, --version
-
Print version
- [input] [default: -]
- [prefix] [default: x]
EXTRA
Output fixed-size pieces of INPUT to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ...; default size is 1000, and default PREFIX is 'x'. With no INPUT, or when INPUT is -, read standard input.
The SIZE argument is an integer and optional unit (example: 10K is 10*1024). Units are K,M,G,T,P,E,Z,Y,R,Q (powers of 1024) or KB,MB,... (powers of 1000). Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on.
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
VERSION
v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0