1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)split.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/16/94 33.\" 34.Dd April 16, 1994 35.Dt SPLIT 1 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm split 39.Nd split a file into pieces 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm split 42.Op Fl b Ar byte_count[k|m] 43.Op Fl l Ar line_count 44.Op Ar file Op Ar name 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm split 48utility reads the given 49.Ar file 50(or standard input if no file is specified) 51and breaks it up into files of 1000 lines each. 52.Pp 53The options are as follows: 54.Bl -tag -width Ds 55.It Fl b 56Create smaller files 57.Ar byte_count 58bytes in length. 59If 60.Dq Li k 61is appended to the number, the file is split into 62.Ar byte_count 63kilobyte pieces. 64If 65.Dq Li m 66is appended to the number, the file is split into 67.Ar byte_count 68megabyte pieces. 69.It Fl l 70Create smaller files 71.Ar n 72lines in length. 73.El 74.Pp 75If additional arguments are specified, the first is used as the name 76of the input file which is to be split. 77If a second additional argument is specified, it is used as a prefix 78for the names of the files into which the file is split. 79In this case, each file into which the file is split is named by the 80prefix followed by a lexically ordered suffix in the range of 81.Dq Li aa-zz . 82.Pp 83If the 84.Ar name 85argument is not specified, the file is split into lexically ordered 86files named in the range of 87.Dq Li xaa-zzz . 88.Sh BUGS 89For historical reasons, if you specify 90.Ar name , 91.Nm split 92can only create 676 separate 93files. 94The default naming convention allows 2028 separate files. 95.Sh HISTORY 96A 97.Nm split 98command appeared in 99.At v6 . 100