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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" from: @(#)split.1 6.4 (Berkeley) 7/29/91
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1994-01-11 21:36:16 +03:00
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.\" $Id: split.1,v 1.3 1994/01/11 18:36:16 jtc Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd July 29, 1991
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.Dt SPLIT 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm split
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.Nd split a file into pieces
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm split
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.Op Fl Ns Ar n
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.Op Fl b Ar bytes
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.Op Ar file Op Ar name
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm split
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utility reads the given
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.Ar file
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and splits it up in to
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smaller files.
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.Pp
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Available options:
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.Bl -tag -width "bb bytesx"
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.It Fl Ns Ar lines
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Create files of length
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.Fl Ns Ar n
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lines long.
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.It Fl b Ar bytes
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Create files of length
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.Ar bytes .
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If no output file length is specified, the file size
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will default to a length of 1000 lines.
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.El
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.Pp
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Available operands:
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.Bl -tag -width name
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.It Fl
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Read from the standard input.
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.It Ar file
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A pathname specifying the
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.Ar file
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to be split. If no
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.Ar file
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operand is given,
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.Nm split
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reads from the standard input.
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.It Ar name
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If the
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.Ar name
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operand is given,
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the output files will begin with the prefix
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.Ar name
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and each sequential portion of the split file
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receives a lexically ordered suffix
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in the range of
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.Bq Em aa-zz .
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If the operand
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.Ar name
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is not specified,
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the default prefix of
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.Em x
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is be used.
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.Pp
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.Sh BUGS
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If you provide
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.Ar name ,
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.Nm split
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can only create 676 separate
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files. The default naming convention allows 2028 separate files.
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Nm split
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command appeared in
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.At v6 .
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