@kszongic/split-file-cli

Split files into chunks by line count, number of parts, or byte size. Zero dependencies.

Install

npm install -g @kszongic/split-file-cli

Usage

# Split into chunks of 1000 lines each
split-file data.csv -l 1000

# Split into exactly 5 parts
split-file biglog.txt -n 5

# Split into 10MB chunks
split-file dump.sql -b 10M

# Output to a specific directory with custom prefix
split-file data.csv -l 500 -o chunks/ -p output

# Read from stdin
cat data.txt | split-file - -l 500

Options

| Option | Description | |---|---| | -l, --lines <n> | Lines per chunk | | -n, --parts <n> | Number of output parts | | -b, --bytes <n> | Bytes per chunk (supports K, M, G suffixes) | | -o, --output <dir> | Output directory (default: .) | | -p, --prefix <str> | Output filename prefix | | --ext <ext> | Output file extension | | -h, --help | Show help | | -v, --version | Show version |

Output

Files are named {prefix}_{NNN}{ext}:

data_001.csv
data_002.csv
data_003.csv

License

MIT