"George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off, I am not sure my first message made it to any where.
It did. ... > I have two suggestions for split: > 1) numeric suffix: I noticed that a numeric suffix options was purposed: > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-08/msg00020.html > Perhaps a better way to specify this would be to use -e (extension) options, where > for example: > -e n3 > would mean to use a 3 digit numeric extension. As well as: > -e c3 > would mean to use a 3 digit alpha extension. > The default would be to use the current 2 digit alpha extension. This has been implemented recently: * Major changes in release 5.0.91: ** New features ... split accepts a new option -d or --numeric-suffixes. > 2) stdout output: Provide an option that causes split to output to stdout, so that > it can be used in pipe commands. This feature would be useful so that the complete > set of output files would not have to be generated before they can be processed. > This feature becomes more important as the input file becomes very large, because > the very large storage requirements could be avoided. Perhaps an option '-o1' could > be used to signify that it's output would be sent to stdout. I don't see how this would be useful, since for any nontrivial operation, split's output must go to separate files. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
