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.TH SPLIT "1" "March 2015" "GNU coreutils 8.23" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
split \- split a file into pieces
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B split
[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIINPUT \fR[\fIPREFIX\fR]]
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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.
.PP
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-suffix\-length\fR=\fIN\fR
generate suffixes of length N (default 2)
.TP
\fB\-\-additional\-suffix\fR=\fISUFFIX\fR
append an additional SUFFIX to file names
.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR=\fISIZE\fR
put SIZE bytes per output file
.TP
\fB\-C\fR, \fB\-\-line\-bytes\fR=\fISIZE\fR
put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-numeric\-suffixes\fR[=\fIFROM\fR]
use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic;
FROM changes the start value (default 0)
.TP
\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-elide\-empty\-files\fR
do not generate empty output files with '\-n'
.TP
\fB\-\-filter\fR=\fICOMMAND\fR
write to shell COMMAND; file name is $FILE
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-lines\fR=\fINUMBER\fR
put NUMBER lines per output file
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-number\fR=\fICHUNKS\fR
generate CHUNKS output files; see explanation below
.TP
\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-unbuffered\fR
immediately copy input to output with '\-n r/...'
.TP
\fB\-\-verbose\fR
print a diagnostic just before each
output file is opened
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.PP
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).
.PP
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
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Report split translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/split>
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or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) split invocation\(aq