From 1b0cf75494a5c331a06d447985c3b95de6fc67a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amit Pal Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:29:26 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] split tldr --- pages/common/split.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 pages/common/split.md diff --git a/pages/common/split.md b/pages/common/split.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7a193bbc67 --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/common/split.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# split + +> Split a file into pieces + +- Split a file with 10 lines in each split (except last split) + +`split -l 10 {{filename}}` + +- Split a file into 5 files. All the splits have same size (not necessarily same number of lines) + +`split -n 5 {{filename}}` + +- Split a file with 512 bytes of lines in each split (most useful) + +`split -C 512 {{filename}}` +