1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 Regents of the University of California. 2.\" 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 6.4 (Berkeley) 7/29/91 33.\" 34.Dd July 29, 1991 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 Ns Ar n 43.Op Fl b Ar bytes 44.Op Ar file Op Ar name 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm split 48utility reads the given 49.Ar file 50and splits it up in to 51smaller files. 52.Pp 53Available options: 54.Bl -tag -width "bb bytesx" 55.It Fl Ns Ar lines 56Create files of length 57.Fl Ns Ar n 58lines long. 59.It Fl b Ar bytes 60Create files of length 61.Ar bytes . 62If no output file length is specified, the file size 63will default to a lenght of 1000 lines. 64.El 65.Pp 66Available operands: 67.Bl -tag -width name 68.It Fl 69Read from the standard input. 70.It Ar file 71A pathname specifying the 72.Ar file 73to be split. If no 74.Ar file 75operand is given, 76.Nm split 77reads from the standard input. 78.It Ar name 79If the 80.Ar name 81operand is given, 82the output files will begin with the prefix 83.Ar name 84and each sequential portion of the split file 85receives a lexically ordered suffix 86in the range of 87.Bq Em aa-zz . 88If the operand 89.Ar name 90is not specified, 91the default prefix of 92.Em x 93is be used. 94.Pp 95.Sh BUGS 96If you provide 97.Ar name , 98.Nm split 99can only create 676 separate 100files. The default naming convention allows 2028 separate files. 101.Sh HISTORY 102A 103.Nm split 104command appeared in 105.At v6 . 106