(split invocation): Add -d or --numeric-suffixes option to 'split'.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 02985304b..913c7b439 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -2317,8 +2317,9 @@ left over for the last section), into each output file.
 
 @cindex output file name prefix
 The output files' names consist of @var{prefix} (@samp{x} by default)
-followed by a group of letters (@samp{aa}, @samp{ab}, @dots{} by default),
-such that concatenating the output files in sorted order by file name produces
+followed by a group of characters (@samp{aa}, @samp{ab}, @dots{} by
+default), such that concatenating the output files in traditional
+sorted order by file name produces
 the original input file.  If the output file names are exhausted,
 @command{split} reports an error without deleting the output files
 that it did create.
@@ -2363,6 +2364,12 @@ less than @var{bytes} bytes of the line are left, then continue
 normally.  @var{bytes} has the same format as for the @option{--bytes}
 option.
 
+@item -d
+@itemx --numeric-suffixes
+@opindex -d
+@opindex --numeric-suffixes
+Use digits in suffixes rather than lower-case letters.
+
 @itemx --verbose
 @opindex --verbose
 Write a diagnostic to standard error just before each output file is opened.