plan9port/man/man1/split.1
Russ Cox 977b25a76a tmac: introduce real manual reference macro instead of overloading IR
The overloading of IR emits magic \X'...' sequences that turn into HTML manual links.
But not all such IR invocations should be manual links;
those had to be written to avoid the IR macro before.
Worse, the \X'...' ending the IR causes troff to emit only a single space after a period.

Defining a new IM macro for manual references fixes both problems.

Fixes #441.
2020-08-13 23:43:43 -04:00

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.TH SPLIT 1
.CT 1 files
.SH NAME
split \- split a file into pieces
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B split
[
.I option ...
]
[
.I file
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Split
reads
.I file
(standard input by default)
and writes it in pieces of 1000
lines per output file.
The names of the
output files are
.BR xaa ,
.BR xab ,
and so on to
.BR xzz .
The options are
.TP
.BI -n " n"
Split into
.IR n -line
pieces.
.TP
.BI -l " n"
Synonym for
.B -n
.IR n ,
a nod to Unix's syntax.
.TP
.BI -e " expression"
File divisions occur at each line
that matches a regular
.IR expression ;
see
.IM regexp (7) .
Multiple
.B -e
options may appear.
If a subexpression of
.I expression
is contained in parentheses
.BR ( ... ) ,
the output file name is the portion of the
line which matches the subexpression.
.TP
.BI -f " stem
Use
.I stem
instead of
.B x
in output file names.
.TP
.BI -s " suffix
Append
.I suffix
to names identified under
.BR -e .
.TP
.B -x
Exclude the matched input line from the output file.
.TP
.B -i
Ignore case in option
.BR -e ;
force output file names (excluding the suffix)
to lower case.
.SH SOURCE
.B \*9/src/cmd/split.c
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR sed (1),
.IM awk (1) ,
.IM grep (1) ,
.IM regexp (7)