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split

List of commands for split:

- split
split:tldr:514ba split: Split a file, each split having 10 lines (except the last split).

$ split -l ${10} ${filename}

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- split
split:tldr:86921 split: Split a file into 5 files. File is split such that each split has same size (except the last split).

$ split -n ${5} ${filename}

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- split
split:tldr:a7f51 split: Split a file with 512 bytes in each split (except the last split; use 512k for kilobytes and 512m for megabytes).

$ split -b ${512} ${filename}

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- split
split:tldr:afc97 split: Split a file by a regular expression. The matching line will be the first line of the next output file.

$ split -p ${select} ${filename}

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split:tldr:b238c split: Split a file with at most 512 bytes in each split without breaking lines.

$ split -C ${512} ${filename}

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