FLOW-SPLIT(1)

💖 FLOW-SPLIT(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to flow-split from the flow-tools fam — this is the flow-split(1) manual page and it's literally the "cut my giant flow file into lil snack-size flow files" queen 👑

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🌸 NAME 🌸

flow-split — split flow files into smaller files. that's it, that's the whole job, and she eats every time 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

flow-split [ -gGhn ]  [ -b big|little ]  [ -C comment ]  [ -d
debug_level ]  [ -N nflows ]  [ -o outfile_basename ]  [ -T nseconds ]
[ -z z_level ]

no cap, that's the whole invocation 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

the flow-split utility will split a flow file into smaller files, based on the number of flows or the amount of time that has passed. pick your chaos metric, babe, she'll chop accordingly ✂️✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -b big|little — byte order of the output. big endian or little endian, your call 🌈
• -C Comment — add a comment. drop your lil annotation in there 💬
• -d debug_level — enable debugging. turn the volume up on what's happening 🔍
• -g — split on source tag. byeeee grouping by where it came from 👋
• -G — split on destination tag. now we're grouping by where it's headed 🎯
• -h — display help. the classic "bestie I'm lost" button 🙈
• -n — use symbols for the tag field in the filename. cute names instead of raw numbers, we love to see it 💖
• -N nflows — split after processing nflows. hit that flow count, boom, new file 📦
• -o outfile_basename — the basename of the resulting files. this is the lil name stem every output file grows out of 🌱
• -T nsecond — split after processing an interval of nseconds flows. time-based chopping, tick tock ⏰
• -z z_level — configure compression level to z_level. 0 is disabled (no compression), 9 is the highest compression. squeeze accordingly 🗜️

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🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

create 1 minute flow files from the flow archive in /flows/krc4. store the results in /flows/krc4.split 👇

flow-cat /flows/krc4 | flow-split -T60 -o /flows/krc4.split/1min.

look at that pipe doing its thing, iconic behavior fr fr 🔥

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💀 BUGS 💀

None known. (she's flawless, we said what we said 💅✨)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Mark Fullmer <maf@splintered.net> — thank you king 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• flow-tools(1)

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mwah 💜 that's the whole page, bestie. this was the flow-split(1) manual, dated 26 Август 2010 — go forth and split responsibly 🎀🦋