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.\" @(#)split.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/16/94
.Nd split a file into pieces
.Op Fl b Ar byte_count[k|m]
(or standard input if no file is specified)
and breaks it up into files of 1000 lines each.
The options are as follows:
is appended to the number, the file is split into
is appended to the number, the file is split into
If additional arguments are specified, the first is used as the name
of the input file which is to be split.
If a second additional argument is specified, it is used as a prefix
for the names of the files into which the file is split.
In this case, each file into which the file is split is named by the
prefix followed by a lexically ordered suffix in the range of
argument is not specified, the file is split into lexically ordered
files named in the range of
For historical reasons, if you specify
can only create 676 separate
The default naming convention allows 2028 separate files.