split

split [OPTIONS] [ARGS]

Create output files containing consecutive or interleaved sections of input

Options

--help, -h

Print help information

--version, -V

Print version information

--bytes, -b

put SIZE bytes per output file

--line-bytes, -C

put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file

--lines, -l

put NUMBER lines/records per output file

--additional-suffix

additional suffix to append to output file names

--filter

write to shell COMMAND file name is $FILE (Currently not implemented for Windows)

--numeric-suffixes, -d

use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic

--suffix-length, -a

use suffixes of length N (default 2)

--verbose

print a diagnostic just before each output file is opened