Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:14:10 +0000 (UTC) From: =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=c3=ada?= <fernape@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r362328 - head/usr.bin/split Message-ID: <202006181514.05IFEA1a048477@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: fernape (ports committer) Date: Thu Jun 18 15:14:10 2020 New Revision: 362328 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/362328 Log: split(1): Add EXAMPLES section Add EXAMPLES covering -d, -n and -p Include small explanation about the size of the chunks for the -n option Approved by: 0mp Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25198 Modified: head/usr.bin/split/split.1 Modified: head/usr.bin/split/split.1 ============================================================================== --- head/usr.bin/split/split.1 Thu Jun 18 13:19:56 2020 (r362327) +++ head/usr.bin/split/split.1 Thu Jun 18 15:14:10 2020 (r362328) @@ -122,6 +122,12 @@ lines in length. Split file into .Ar chunk_count smaller files. +The first n - 1 files will be of size (size of +.Ar file +/ +.Ar chunk_count +) +and the last file will contain the remaining bytes. .It Fl p Ar pattern The file is split whenever an input line matches .Ar pattern , @@ -164,6 +170,36 @@ as described in .Xr environ 7 . .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std +.Sh EXAMPLES +Split input into as many files as needed, so that each file contains at most 2 +lines: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ echo -e "first line\\nsecond line\\nthird line\\nforth line" | split -l2 +.Ed +.Pp +Split input in chunks of 10 bytes using numeric prefixes for file names. +This generates two files of 10 bytes (x00 and x01) and a third file (x02) with the +remaining 2 bytes: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ echo -e "This is 22 bytes long" | split -d -b10 +.Ed +.Pp +Split input generating 6 files: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +echo -e "This is 22 bytes long" | split -n 6 +.Ed +.Pp +Split input creating a new file every time a line matches the regular expression +for a +.Dq t +followed by either +.Dq a +or +.Dq u +thus creating two files: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ echo -e "stack\\nstock\\nstuck\\nanother line" | split -p 't[au]' +.Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr csplit 1 , .Xr re_format 7
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