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                     36: .Dd April 16, 1994
                     37: .Dt SPLIT 1
                     38: .Os
                     39: .Sh NAME
                     40: .Nm split
                     41: .Nd split a file into pieces
                     42: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     43: .Nm split
                     44: .Op Fl b Ar byte_count[k|m]
                     45: .Op Fl l Ar line_count
                     46: .Op Ar file Op Ar name
                     47: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     48: The
                     49: .Nm split
                     50: utility reads the given
                     51: .Ar file
                     52: (or standard input if no file is specified)
                     53: and breaks it up into files of 1000 lines each.
                     54: .Pp
                     55: The options are as follows:
                     56: .Bl -tag -width Ds
                     57: .It Fl b
                     58: Create smaller files
                     59: .Ar byte_count
                     60: bytes in length.
                     61: If
                     62: .Dq Li k
                     63: is appended to the number, the file is split into
                     64: .Ar byte_count
                     65: kilobyte pieces.
                     66: If
                     67: .Dq Li m
                     68: is appended to the number, the file is split into
                     69: .Ar byte_count
                     70: megabyte pieces.
                     71: .It Fl l
                     72: Create smaller files
                     73: .Ar n
                     74: lines in length.
                     75: .El
                     76: .Pp
                     77: If additional arguments are specified, the first is used as the name
                     78: of the input file which is to be split.
                     79: If a second additional argument is specified, it is used as a prefix
                     80: for the names of the files into which the file is split.
                     81: In this case, each file into which the file is split is named by the
                     82: prefix followed by a lexically ordered suffix in the range of
                     83: .Dq Li aa-zz .
                     84: .Pp
                     85: If the
                     86: .Ar name
                     87: argument is not specified, the file is split into lexically ordered
                     88: files named in the range of
                     89: .Dq Li xaa-zzz .
                     90: .Sh BUGS
                     91: For historical reasons, if you specify
                     92: .Ar name ,
                     93: .Nm split
                     94: can only create 676 separate
                     95: files.
                     96: The default naming convention allows 2028 separate files.
                     97: .Sh HISTORY
                     98: A
                     99: .Nm split
                    100: command appeared in
                    101: .At v6 .