Operating system | Unix and Unix-like |
---|---|
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
License | GNU GPL v3 |
The csplit
command in
Unix and
Unix-like
operating systems is a utility that is used to split a
file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines.
csplit
is part of the
X/Open Portability Guide since issue 2 of 1987. It was inherited into the first version of POSIX and the
Single Unix Specification.
[1] It first appeared in PWB UNIX.
[2]
The version of csplit
bundled in
GNU
coreutils was written by Stuart Kemp and David MacKenzie.
[3] The command is available as a separate package for
Microsoft Windows as part of the
UnxUtils collection of
native
Win32
ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.
[4]
The command- syntax is:
csplit OPTION... FILE PATTERN...
The patterns may be
line numbers or
regular expressions. The program outputs pieces of the file separated by the patterns into files xx00
, xx01
, etc., and outputs the size of each piece, in
bytes, to
standard output.
The optional parameters modify the behaviour of the program in various ways. For example, the default prefix string (xx) and number of digits (2) in the output filenames can be changed.
As with most Unix utilities, a return code of 0 indicates success, while nonzero values indicate failure.
The
split
command also splits a file into pieces, except that all the pieces are of a fixed size (measured in lines or bytes).
Operating system | Unix and Unix-like |
---|---|
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
License | GNU GPL v3 |
The csplit
command in
Unix and
Unix-like
operating systems is a utility that is used to split a
file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines.
csplit
is part of the
X/Open Portability Guide since issue 2 of 1987. It was inherited into the first version of POSIX and the
Single Unix Specification.
[1] It first appeared in PWB UNIX.
[2]
The version of csplit
bundled in
GNU
coreutils was written by Stuart Kemp and David MacKenzie.
[3] The command is available as a separate package for
Microsoft Windows as part of the
UnxUtils collection of
native
Win32
ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.
[4]
The command- syntax is:
csplit OPTION... FILE PATTERN...
The patterns may be
line numbers or
regular expressions. The program outputs pieces of the file separated by the patterns into files xx00
, xx01
, etc., and outputs the size of each piece, in
bytes, to
standard output.
The optional parameters modify the behaviour of the program in various ways. For example, the default prefix string (xx) and number of digits (2) in the output filenames can be changed.
As with most Unix utilities, a return code of 0 indicates success, while nonzero values indicate failure.
The
split
command also splits a file into pieces, except that all the pieces are of a fixed size (measured in lines or bytes).