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Change 'split' to conform to POSIX. It now accepts an -a or

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--suffix-length option, and refuses to generate more files
than there are suffixes.

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Jim Meyering
2002-02-15 15:22:32 +00:00
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@@ -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