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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Splitting files Post 302665201 by jim mcnamara on Monday 2nd of July 2012 06:21:16 AM
Old 07-02-2012
To be clear: How can you be sure you get 12 files and not 13 or 11 if you do not provide parameters to split? split works on number of bytes or number of lines, csplit works on context (strings in the file, for example). csplit and split have defaults. These WILL NOT produce 12 files for you.
 

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flow-split

flow-split(1)						      General Commands Manual						     flow-split(1)

NAME

       flow-split -- Split flow files into smaller files.

SYNOPSIS

       flow-split [-gGhn]  [-b big|little]  [-C comment]  [-d debug_level]  [-N nflows]  [-o outfile_basename]	[-T nseconds]  [-z z_level]

DESCRIPTION

       The flow-split utility will split a flow file into smaller files based on the the number of flows or the ammount of time that has passed.

OPTIONS

       -b big|little
		 Byte order of output.

       -C Comment
		 Add a comment.

       -d debug_level
		 Enable debugging.

       -g	 Split on source tag.

       -G	 Split on destination tag.

       -h	 Display help.

       -n	 Use symbols for tag field in filename.

       -N nflows Split after processing nflows.

       -o outfile_basename
		 The basename of the resulting files.

       -T nsecond
		 Split after processing an interval of nseconds flows.

       -z z_level
		 Configure compression level to  z_level.  0 is disabled (no compression), 9 is highest compression.

EXAMPLES

       Create 1 minute flow files from the flow archive in /flows/krc4.  Store the results in /flows/krc4.split

	 flow-cat /flows/krc4 | flow-split -T60 -o /flows/krc4.split/1min.

BUGS

       None known.

AUTHOR

       Mark Fullmer maf@splintered.net

SEE ALSO

       flow-tools(1)

																     flow-split(1)
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