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authorJérémy Compostella <jeremy.compostella@gmail.com>2012-03-01 20:37:41 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2012-03-10 19:36:13 +0000
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downloadcoreutils-7480e2db2935663b9c0c4d66418ce2801005792d.tar.xz
split: support an arbitrary number of split files by default
* src/split.c (next_file_name): If `suffix_auto' is true and the first suffix character is 'z', generate a new file file name adding `z' to the prefix and increasing the suffix length by one. (set_suffix_length): Disable auto suffix width in various cases. * tests/split/suffix-auto-length: Test it. * doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Mention it. * NEWS (Improvements): Likewise.
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@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
systems for which getfilecon-, ACL-check- and XATTR-check-induced syscalls
fail with ENOTSUP or similar.
+ split now supports an unlimited number of split files as default behavior.
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.15 (2012-01-06) [stable]