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authorTim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2005-08-30 12:48:28 +0000
committerTim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2005-08-30 12:48:28 +0000
commit33eafb83b76b6a3f1a2d1f712e6f623097edfbf9 (patch)
treedfc93959a0e0c475570f2212b6111ed9c227bc6d /usr.bin/split
parentf98418eb2941434d2d73cd803787faa5015854b7 (diff)
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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/split/split.116
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/split/split.1 b/usr.bin/split/split.1
index 1383671f5833..697682e65094 100644
--- a/usr.bin/split/split.1
+++ b/usr.bin/split/split.1
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)split.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/16/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd July 12, 2004
+.Dd August 21, 2005
.Dt SPLIT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -61,11 +61,11 @@ reads from the standard input.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Fl a
+.It Fl a Ar suffix_length
Use
.Ar suffix_length
letters to form the suffix of the file name.
-.It Fl b
+.It Fl b Ar byte_count[k|m]
Create smaller files
.Ar byte_count
bytes in length.
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ If
is appended to the number, the file is split into
.Ar byte_count
megabyte pieces.
-.It Fl l
+.It Fl l Ar line_count
Create smaller files
.Ar n
lines in length.
@@ -139,12 +139,4 @@ A
command appeared in
.At v3 .
.Sh BUGS
-For historical reasons,
-.Nm
-can only create 676 separate
-files.
-The
-.Fl a
-option can be used to work around this limitation.
-.Pp
The maximum line length for matching patterns is 65536.