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From: matthieu@elwood.laas.fr (Matthieu Herrb)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Is there a split program that can split by bytecount?
Date: 01 Jun 1994 06:44:56 GMT
Organization: LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, France
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Message-ID: <MATTHIEU.94Jun1084456@elwood.laas.fr>
References: <klee.770406936@imagen> <ASAMI.94May31160954@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu>
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In-reply-to: asami@cs.berkeley.edu's message of 31 May 94 16:09:54
In article <ASAMI.94May31160954@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu> asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI) writes:
In article <klee.770406936@imagen> klee@imagen.com (Kanghoon Lee) writes:
* Is there a split program that can split a file by bytecount, rather
* than line numbers? If so, could somebody tell me where I can find
* one?
GNU split can do it. In particular, the one in FreeBSD (and NetBSD?).
NetBSD's split (which is not GNU split) has a ``-b bytes'' options to
specify byte count.
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Matthieu Herrb CNRS - LAAS
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