From 7480e2db2935663b9c0c4d66418ce2801005792d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jérémy Compostella Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 20:37:41 +0100 Subject: 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. --- NEWS | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7f36dc613..87ef7bd94 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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] -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf