split(1): Add EXAMPLES section

Add EXAMPLES covering -d, -n and -p
Include small explanation about the size of the chunks for the -n option

Approved by: 0mp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.f

split(1): Add EXAMPLES section

Add EXAMPLES covering -d, -n and -p
Include small explanation about the size of the chunks for the -n option

Approved by: 0mp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25198

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Renumber copyright clause 4

Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is

Renumber copyright clause 4

Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.

Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <[email protected]>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96

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Bump .Dd for recent content change.

Reported by: delphij

Implement 'split -d' which allows a numeric suffix instead of an
alphabetic one.

PR: bin/116209
Submitted by: Marcin Gryszkalis <[email protected]> (adapted from)
Reviewed by: will
MFC after: 1 week

Remove the advertising clause from UCB copyrighted files in usr.bin. This
is in accordance with the information provided at
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change

Also add $F

Remove the advertising clause from UCB copyrighted files in usr.bin. This
is in accordance with the information provided at
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change

Also add $FreeBSD$ to a few files to keep svn happy.

Discussed with: imp, rwatson

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Correct spelling mistake, int -> into

MFC after: 3 days

When "-b" is specified, one could easily create "smaller" files
that are much larger than expected (given the default size).
Change "smaller files" to "split files" which is more in line
with what "-

When "-b" is specified, one could easily create "smaller" files
that are much larger than expected (given the default size).
Change "smaller files" to "split files" which is more in line
with what "-b" actually does.

PR: 119329
Submitted by: Julian Stacey <[email protected]>

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Add a -n option to split(1) to split files into N chunks rather than
having to specify the right number of bytes.

Obtained from: NetBSD
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <[email protected]>
PR: 113

Add a -n option to split(1) to split files into N chunks rather than
having to specify the right number of bytes.

Obtained from: NetBSD
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <[email protected]>
PR: 113175

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Markup fixes.

Add support for splitting at gigabyte boundaries. [1]

Also make both lowercase and uppercase suffix letters work
as byte-count suffixes, i.e. the following two commands are
equivalent now:

% sp

Add support for splitting at gigabyte boundaries. [1]

Also make both lowercase and uppercase suffix letters work
as byte-count suffixes, i.e. the following two commands are
equivalent now:

% split -b 4m foo
% split -b 4M foo

Submitted by: Roman Divacky [1]
Lots of help by: cperciva
Reviewed by: cperciva
MFC after: 1 week

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Update usage & SYNOPSIS and clarify that input files are not removed.
Sort getopt option handling of -p too, while here.

The changes are adapted from a patch by Ruslan Ermilov, posted as
followup to

Update usage & SYNOPSIS and clarify that input files are not removed.
Sort getopt option handling of -p too, while here.

The changes are adapted from a patch by Ruslan Ermilov, posted as
followup to docs/33852.

PR: docs/33852
Submitted by: Gary W. Swearingen <[email protected]>
MFC after: 1 week

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-mdoc sweep.

Include option-argument names in the list in the DESCRIPTION section.
Remove a non-bug from the BUGS section.

Remove the hack that varied the first character of the output file name
if none was specified on the command line. This is not permitted by
POSIX, and no longer needed now that we have the -a option.

Remove the hack that varied the first character of the output file name
if none was specified on the command line. This is not permitted by
POSIX, and no longer needed now that we have the -a option.

PR: 85099
Submitted by: Toby Peterson (Apple Computer)

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Added the EXIT STATUS section where appropriate.

Fix document year.

Noticed by: simon

Add fairly standard ENVIRONMENT and DIAGNOSTICS sections.

Sort sections.

Correct HISTORY section - split(1) appeared at least as early as V3.

mdoc(7) police: use .Fl to denote stdin.

Claim conformance to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.
See also csplit(1).

Allow "-" to be specified as an operand as well as an option.
SUSV3 requires something like "split -- -" to work. Document the "-" operand.

Add -a option (SUSv3) to split(1).

Submitted by: Tim J. Robbins <[email protected]>
MFC after: 1 month

Remove whitespace at EOL.

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.