split (command)

wikipedia:split (Unix) command splits a file into pieces. Default size is 1000 lines

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/split.1.html

split filename_to_split
(no output and file_name has been splitted)

split filename_to_split --verbose

split -b 500M filename_to_split
(no output and file_name has been splitted)

split -b 1G filename_to_split
(no output and file_name has been splitted)

• Generate n chunks output files with -n flag

split -n
split -n5 filename_to_split

Related terms

• truncate
• cat
• coreutils package
• csplit
• logrotate
• Split window
• Terraform split

See also

• Split screen
• cat, tac, more, less, tail, mtail, echo, stdin, tr, column, paste, truncate, logrotate, xzcat pv, progress, sort, ncat, virt-cat, awk, join, col, fold, tee, sponge, nfs-cat, journalctl, ccat, icat, EOF, lolcat
• file, File system, directory, touch, mkdir, ls, ln truncate, fallocate, split, stat, inode, File descriptor, superblock, block size (blockdev), fuser, lsof, scrub, chattr, ulimit (nofiles), cp, mv, file (command), mkfifo, chmod
• tar, tar -J, docker-untar, --list, ar, tar -cvf, tar -xvf, tar --help