Read from standard input.

Append suffix to output filename. This option causes -n to be ignored. suffix must specify how to convert the binary integer to readable form by including one of the following: %d, %i, %u, %o, %x, or %X. The value of suffix determines the format for numbers as follows:

%d

Signed decimal.

%i

Same as %d.

%u

Unsigned decimal.

%o

Octal.

%x

Hexadecimal.

%X

Same as %x.

Name new files prefix00 through prefixn (default is xx00 through xxn).

Keep newly created files even when an error occurs (which would normally remove these files). This is useful when you need to specify an arbitrarily large repeat argument, {n}, and you don't want an out-of-range error to cause removal of the new files.

Use output filenames with numbers num digits long. The default is 2.

Suppress all character counts.

Do not create empty output files. However, number as if those files had been created.

Create file from the current line up to the line containing the regular expression expr. offset should be of the form +n or -n, where n is the number of lines below or above expr.

Same as /expr/, except no file is created for lines previous to line containing expr.

Create file from current line up to (but not including) line number num. When followed by a repeat count (number inside { }), put the next num lines of input into another output file.

Repeat argument n times. May follow any of the preceding arguments. Files will split at instances of expr or in blocks of num lines. If * is given instead of n, repeat argument until input is exhausted.