harvey/sys/man/1/bsplit

.TH BSPLIT 1
.SH NAME
bsplit \- split binary data into fixed-size chunks
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B bsplit
[
.B -p
.I prefix
] [
.B -s
.I size
] [
.I file
\&...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Bsplit
copies binary data from input
.I files
into a series of files with names starting with
.I prefix
.RL ( bs.\&
by default)
and of a fixed
.I size
(512MB by default).
The last file may be shorter than
.IR size .
This can be useful when copying large amounts of data onto
fixed-size storage media such as CDs or DVDs.
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.SH FILES
.I prefixNNNNN
output files
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/bsplit.c
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR split (1),
.IR tarsplit (1)
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