split

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Copy an input (or stdin) data to a series of outputs (POSIX, toybox)

Syntax:

split [-a suffix_len] [-b bytes] [-l lines] [-n parts] [input [output]]

Runs on:

QNX OS

Options:

-a suffix_len
Use the specified suffix_len (default 2).
-b bytes
Copy the specified bytes (10, 10kb, 10mb, 10gb...) to each output.
-l lines
("el") Copy the specified lines (default 1000) to each output.
-n parts
Create output files with equal amount of parts.
input
The pathname of the file to copy.
output
The pathname of the output file.

Description:

The split utility copies the input (or stdin) data to a series of output (or x) files with an alphabetically increasing suffix (aa, ab, ac... az, ba, bb... etc.).

This utility is provided as part of the toybox package. For information on how to enable it, see toybox.

Contributing author:

Rob Landley and the toybox project (see https://landley.net/toybox/).

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