SPLIT(1)                         User Commands
SPLIT(1)



NNAAMMEE
       split - split a file into pieces

SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
       sspplliitt [_O_P_T_I_O_N] [_I_N_P_U_T
       [_P_R_E_F_I_X]]

DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
       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a,
       ----ssuuffffiixx--lleennggtthh=_N
              use suffixes of length N (default 2)

       --bb, ----bbyytteess=_S_I_Z_E
              put SIZE bytes per output file

       --CC,
       ----lliinnee--bbyytteess=_S_I_Z_E
              put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file

       --dd,
       ----nnuummeerriicc--ssuuffffiixxeess
              use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic

       --ll, ----lliinneess=_N_U_M_B_E_R
              put NUMBER lines per output file

       ----vveerrbboossee
              print a diagnostic to standard error  just
              before  each  output file is opened

       ----hheellpp display this help and exit

       ----vveerrssiioonn
              output version information and exit

       SIZE may have a multiplier suffix: b for 512, k for 1K,
       m for 1 Meg.

AAUUTTHHOORR
       Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.

RREEPPOORRTTIINNGG BBUUGGSS
       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

CCOOPPYYRRIIGGHHTT
       Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This  is  free  software.   You may redistribute
       copies of it under the terms      of      the
       GNU      General       Public       License
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.   There  is
       NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SSEEEE AALLSSOO
       The full documentation for sspplliitt is
       maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the  iinnffoo
       and  sspplliitt programs are properly installed
       at your site, the command

              iinnffoo sspplliitt

       should give you access to the complete manual.



split 6.7                        December 2006
SPLIT(1)
