Split is a command which is used to split a file into pieces by default the split command split files in to the 1000 lines, and default PREFIX is `x’. The following arguments are present with the split command.<\/p>\n
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-a, –suffix-length=N use suffixes of length N (default 2)
\n -b, –bytes=SIZE put SIZE bytes per output file
\n -C, –line-bytes=SIZE put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file
\n -d, –numeric-suffixes use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic
\n -l, –lines=NUMBER put NUMBER lines per output file
\n –verbose print a diagnostic to standard error just
\n before each output file is opened
\n~~~~~~~~~~~<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe latest split version is 5.97 and you can also confirm the split version by using the following command.<\/p>\n
split –version<\/strong><\/p>\n
root@linux [~]# split –version
\nsplit (GNU coreutils) 5.97
\nCopyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe most common use of split command is to split the big files into the small files to download in on local machine or on remote server.<\/p>\n
For example, if we want to split the 210M file in to the set of 21M files than use the following command.<\/p>\n
split –bytes=20971520 FILENAME new-21mb-size<\/p>\n
The above command will split the 210M file in to the 10 small files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"