From 80cb677ce9dd67d02979e576ba5a59dcb98ed3fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:22:32 +0000 Subject: Change 'split' to conform to POSIX. It now accepts an -a or --suffix-length option, and refuses to generate more files than there are suffixes. Document this. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/coreutils.texi') diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index da8a0528c..6bc62a3bd 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2231,15 +2231,22 @@ 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}, and so on, such -that concatenating the output files in sorted order by file name produces -the original input file. (If more than 676 output files are required, -@code{split} uses @samp{zaa}, @samp{zab}, etc.) +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 +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. The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. @table @samp +@item -a @var{length} +@itemx --suffix-length=@var{length} +@opindex -a +@opindex --suffix-length +Use suffixes of length @var{length}. The default @var{length} is 2. + @item -l @var{lines} @itemx --lines=@var{lines} @opindex -l -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf