Manual: split

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NAME
       split - Create output files containing consecutive or interleaved sections of input

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]

DESCRIPTION
       Create output files containing consecutive or interleaved sections of input

OPTIONS
       -b, --bytes 
	      put SIZE bytes per output file

       -C, --line-bytes 
	      put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file

       -l, --lines  [default: 1000]
	      put NUMBER lines/records per output file

       -n, --number 
	      generate CHUNKS output files; see explanation below

       --additional-suffix  [default: ]
	      additional SUFFIX to append to output file names

       --filter 
	      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'

       -d     use numeric suffixes starting at 0, not alphabetic

       --numeric-suffixes[=]
	      same as -d, but allow setting the start value

       -x     use hex suffixes starting at 0, not alphabetic

       --hex-suffixes[=]
	      same as -x, but allow setting the start value

       -a, --suffix-length 
	      generate suffixes of length N (default 2)

       --verbose
	      print a diagnostic just before each output file is opened

       -t, --separator 
	      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]

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.

       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 split‐
       ting  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

VERSION
       v(uutils coreutils) 0.8.0

							 2026-04-16						    SPLIT(1)