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authorJérémy Compostella <jeremy.compostella@gmail.com>2012-02-19 13:52:47 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2012-02-20 13:30:26 +0000
commit69fed0dfecef60976e6144ea953493ec3efe517b (patch)
treec3aac97432a0d257cad1405586dad875c5892d6f /NEWS
parent7f48aa570d93347aa72d86a034e36377db6a22b9 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-69fed0dfecef60976e6144ea953493ec3efe517b.tar.xz
split: add the --additional-suffix option
Add the --additional-suffix option, to append an additional static suffix to output file names. * src/split.c (next_file_name): Append suffix to output file names. (main): Handle new --additional-suffix option. * NEWS (New features): Mention it. * doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Mention it. * tests/split/additional-suffix: New file. Test --additional-suffix. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it. Requested by Peng Yu, in bug 6554
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@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
split now accepts an optional "from" argument to --numeric-suffixes,
which changes the start number from the default of 0.
+ split now accepts the --additional-suffix option, to append an
+ additional static suffix to output file names.
+
** Bug fixes
mv now lets you move a symlink onto a same-inode destination file that