From 1b0cf75494a5c331a06d447985c3b95de6fc67a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amit Pal Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:29:26 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] 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}}` + From 1b62e0d4db2ebe46cf5d9db5e5573d5af045196b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: amitpl Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:04:47 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] comments included --- pages/common/split.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/pages/common/split.md b/pages/common/split.md index 7a193bbc67..9552c68528 100644 --- a/pages/common/split.md +++ b/pages/common/split.md @@ -2,15 +2,15 @@ > Split a file into pieces -- Split a file with 10 lines in each split (except last split) +- Split a file, each split having 10 lines (except the 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 a file into 5 files. File is split such that each split has same size (except the last split) `split -n 5 {{filename}}` -- Split a file with 512 bytes of lines in each split (most useful) +- Split a file with atmost 512 bytes of lines in each split. `split -C 512 {{filename}}`