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 from: @(#)split.1 6.4 (Berkeley) 7/29/91
 $Id: split.1,v 1.4 1994/04/01 04:01:48 cgd Exp $

.Dd July 29, 1991
.Dt SPLIT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm split
.Nd split a file into pieces
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm split
.Op Fl Ns Ar n
.Op Fl b Ar bytes
.Op Ar file Op Ar name
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm split
utility reads the given
.Ar file
and splits it up in to
smaller files.

p
Available options:
l -tag -width "bb bytesx" t Fl Ns Ar lines Create files of length
.Fl Ns Ar n
lines long.
t Fl b Ar bytes Create files of length
.Ar bytes .
.El

p
If no output file length is specified, the file size
will default to a length of 1000 lines.

p
Available operands:
l -tag -width name t Fl Read from the standard input.
t Ar file A pathname specifying the
.Ar file 
to be split. If no
.Ar file
operand is given,
.Nm split
reads from the standard input.
t Ar name If the
.Ar name
operand is given,
the output files will begin with the prefix
.Ar name
and each sequential portion of the split file
receives a lexically ordered suffix
in the range of 
q Em aa-zz . If the operand
.Ar name
is not specified,
the default prefix of
.Em x
is be used.

p
.Sh BUGS
If you provide
.Ar name ,
.Nm split
can only create 676 separate
files. The default naming convention allows 2028 separate files.
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm split
command appeared in
.At v6 .