# split ``` split [OPTION]... [INPUT [PREFIX]] ``` Create output files containing consecutive or interleaved sections of input ## After Help Output fixed-size pieces of INPUT to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ...; default size is 1000, and default PREFIX is 'x'. With no INPUT, or when INPUT is -, read standard input. The SIZE argument is an integer and optional unit (example: 10K is 10*1024). Units are K,M,G,T,P,E,Z,Y,R,Q (powers of 1024) or KB,MB,... (powers of 1000). Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. CHUNKS may be: - N split into N files based on size of input - K/N output Kth of N to stdout - l/N split into N files without splitting lines/records - l/K/N output Kth of N to stdout without splitting lines/records - r/N like 'l' but use round robin distribution - r/K/N likewise but only output Kth of N to stdout