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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-11 21:40:09 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-11 21:40:09 +0000
commit80e5779001a9337a84f29f2a1e46f0022fb98026 (patch)
treee15e37ecf0918c142b82398da2f0dee4a897b4ca /usr.bin/split/split.1
parentd7d5044e2ea6ec17428055f7a436dfe704ec1fb7 (diff)
Various cleanups and standardizations.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/split/split.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/split/split.116
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/split/split.1 b/usr.bin/split/split.1
index c851d477323..e7ea9ac72a7 100644
--- a/usr.bin/split/split.1
+++ b/usr.bin/split/split.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: split.1,v 1.4 1999/06/05 01:21:41 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: split.1,v 1.5 2000/03/11 21:40:03 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: split.1,v 1.5 1994/12/21 08:20:35 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
.Op Ar file Op Ar name
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Nm split
+.Nm
utility reads the given
.Ar file
(or standard input if no file is specified)
@@ -61,12 +61,12 @@ Create smaller files
.Ar byte_count
bytes in length.
If
-.Dq Li k
+.Sq k
is appended to the number, the file is split into
.Ar byte_count
kilobyte pieces.
If
-.Dq Li m
+.Sq m
is appended to the number, the file is split into
.Ar byte_count
megabyte pieces.
@@ -92,17 +92,17 @@ If a second additional argument is specified, it is used as a prefix
for the names of the files into which the file is split.
In this case, each file into which the file is split is named by the
prefix followed by a lexically ordered suffix in the range of
-.Dq Li aa-zz .
+.Dq aa-zz .
.Pp
If the
.Ar name
argument is not specified, the file is split into lexically ordered
files named in the range of
-.Dq Li xaa-zzz .
+.Dq xaa-zzz .
.Sh BUGS
For historical reasons, if you specify
.Ar name ,
-.Nm split
+.Nm
can only create 676 separate
files.
The default naming convention allows 2028 separate files.
@@ -112,6 +112,6 @@ The maximum line length for matching patterns is 65536.
.Xr re_format 7 .
.Sh HISTORY
A
-.Nm split
+.Nm
command appeared in
.At v6 .