split: mention regex instead of pattern

2019-01-15 12:51:00 -05:00
parent bcda9b60e3
commit 3768c57acb
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--- a/pages/osx/split.md
+++ b/pages/osx/split.md
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@

 `split -l {{10}} {{filename}}`

- Split a file by a pattern (the pattern is the head of each split):
+- Split a file by a regular expression. The matching line will be the first line of the next output file:

-`split -p {{pattern}} {{filename}}`
+`split -p {{regular expression}} {{filename}}`

 - Split a file with 512 bytes in each split (except the last split; use 512k for kilobytes and 512m for megabytes):