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authorkeramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org>2006-08-08 21:25:22 +0000
committerkeramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org>2006-08-08 21:25:22 +0000
commit7d23f1583e6ad8f51cc1aecedac76d865aeeed03 (patch)
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parent2d628bb4d98b991fc187a29462ce204e463b7166 (diff)
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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 docs/33852. PR: docs/33852 Submitted by: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net> MFC after: 1 week
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/split/split.132
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/split/split.c16
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/split/split.1 b/usr.bin/split/split.1
index 5b17432..afd7dc4 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 August 21, 2005
+.Dd August 9, 2006
.Dt SPLIT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -40,17 +40,29 @@
.Nd split a file into pieces
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
-.Op Fl a Ar suffix_length
-.Op Fl b Ar byte_count Ns Op Cm k Ns | Ns Cm m
.Op Fl l Ar line_count
-.Op Fl p Ar pattern
-.Op Ar file Op Ar name
+.Op Fl a Ar suffix_length
+.Op Ar file Op Ar prefix
+.Nm
+.Fl b Ar byte_count Ns
+.Oo
+.Cm k Ns | Ns Cm m
+.Oc
+.Op Fl a Ar suffix_length
+.Op Ar file Op Ar prefix
+.Nm
+.Fl p Ar pattern
+.Op Fl a Ar suffix_length
+.Op Ar file Op Ar prefix
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility reads the given
.Ar file
-and breaks it up into files of 1000 lines each.
+and breaks it up into files of 1000 lines each
+(if no options are specified), leaving the
+.Ar file
+unchanged.
If
.Ar file
is a single dash
@@ -60,7 +72,7 @@ or absent,
reads from the standard input.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl a Ar suffix_length
Use
.Ar suffix_length
@@ -81,7 +93,7 @@ is appended to the number, the file is split into
megabyte pieces.
.It Fl l Ar line_count
Create smaller files
-.Ar n
+.Ar line_count
lines in length.
.It Fl p Ar pattern
The file is split whenever an input line matches
@@ -103,13 +115,13 @@ In this case, each file into which the file is split is named by the
prefix followed by a lexically ordered suffix using
.Ar suffix_length
characters in the range
-.Dq Li a-z .
+.Dq Li a Ns - Ns Li z .
If
.Fl a
is not specified, two letters are used as the suffix.
.Pp
If the
-.Ar name
+.Ar prefix
argument is not specified, the file is split into lexically ordered
files named with the prefix
.Dq Li x
diff --git a/usr.bin/split/split.c b/usr.bin/split/split.c
index 906d07a..71b47c7 100644
--- a/usr.bin/split/split.c
+++ b/usr.bin/split/split.c
@@ -130,11 +130,6 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
errx(EX_USAGE, "%s: offset too large", optarg);
bytecnt = (off_t)(bytecnti * scale);
break;
- case 'p' : /* pattern matching. */
- if (regcomp(&rgx, optarg, REG_EXTENDED|REG_NOSUB) != 0)
- errx(EX_USAGE, "%s: illegal regexp", optarg);
- pflag = 1;
- break;
case 'l': /* Line count. */
if (numlines != 0)
usage();
@@ -142,6 +137,11 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
errx(EX_USAGE,
"%s: illegal line count", optarg);
break;
+ case 'p': /* pattern matching. */
+ if (regcomp(&rgx, optarg, REG_EXTENDED|REG_NOSUB) != 0)
+ errx(EX_USAGE, "%s: illegal regexp", optarg);
+ pflag = 1;
+ break;
default:
usage();
}
@@ -335,8 +335,8 @@ static void
usage(void)
{
(void)fprintf(stderr,
-"usage: split [-a sufflen] [-b byte_count] [-l line_count] [-p pattern]\n");
- (void)fprintf(stderr,
-" [file [prefix]]\n");
+"usage: split [-l line_count] [-a suffix_length] [file [prefix]]\n"
+" split -b byte_count[k|m] [-a suffix_length] [file [prefix]]\n"
+" split -p pattern [-a suffix_length] [file [prefix]]\n");
exit(EX_USAGE);
}
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