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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 11 |
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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. |