split(1)

✨ NAME ✨

split — bestie, it makes output files that hold consecutive or interleaved sections of input 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

split [-b|--bytes] [-C|--line-bytes] [-l|--lines] [-n|--number]
[--additional-suffix] [--filter] [-e|--elide-empty-files] [-d ]
[--numeric-suffixes] [-x ] [--hex-suffixes] [-a|--suffix-length]
[--verbose] [-t|--separator] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [input] [prefix]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Create output files containing consecutive or interleaved sections of input. That's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly. 💅

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so here's the full menu, no skips, no skimming, every single one, fr fr:

• -b, --bytes <SIZE> — put SIZE bytes per output file 📦
• -C, --line-bytes <SIZE> — put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file (so like, it won't split a line in half, respectful queen 🫶)
• -l, --lines <NUMBER> — put NUMBER lines/records per output file [default: 1000]
• -n, --number <CHUNKS> — generate CHUNKS output files; the explanation is down below, keep reading bestie 👀
• --additional-suffix <SUFFIX> — additional SUFFIX to append to output file names [default: (empty)]
• --filter <COMMAND> — write to shell COMMAND; file name is $FILE (Currently not implemented for Windows ⚠️)
• -e, --elide-empty-files — do not generate empty output files with -n (no ghost files, we don't do that here 🙈)
• -d — use numeric suffixes starting at 0, not alphabetic 🔢
• --numeric-suffixes[=<FROM>] — same as -d, but allow setting the start value
• -x — use hex suffixes starting at 0, not alphabetic 🌈
• --hex-suffixes[=<FROM>] — same as -x, but allow setting the start value
• -a, --suffix-length <N> — generate suffixes of length N (default 2)
• --verbose — print a diagnostic just before each output file is opened 🗣️
• -t, --separator <SEP> — use SEP instead of newline as the record separator; '\0' (zero) specifies the NUL character
• -h, --help — Print help 🆘
• -V, --version — Print version
• [input] [default: -]
• [prefix] [default: x]

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🦋 EXTRA 🦋

Output fixed-size pieces of INPUT to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ...; default size is 1000, and default PREFIX is x. With no INPUT, or when INPUT is -, read standard input. (Yes, that dash is main character energy. She reads stdin. Periodt. 👑)

The SIZE argument is an integer and optional unit (example: 10K is 10*1024). Units are K,M,G,T,P,E,Z,Y,R,Q (powers of 1024) or KB,MB,... (powers of 1000). Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. 🧚

CHUNKS may be:**

• N — split into N files based on size of input
• K/N — output Kth of N to stdout
• l/N — split into N files without splitting lines/records
• l/K/N — output Kth of N to stdout without splitting lines/records
• r/N — like l but use round robin distribution 🎠
• r/K/N — likewise but only output Kth of N to stdout

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate it, go split something 💖

this iconic lil manual is from split (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0 — the General Commands Manual crew, mwah, no cap 🌸🫶✨