Roger McNichols wrote: > > I found a machine with the old version of split. > > home:~> uname -a > Linux home 2.2.13 #4 Thu May 8 23:11:31 CDT 2003 i686 unknown > home:~> > home:~> split --version > split (GNU textutils) 1.22 > home:~> > > > Here's the result of > home:~> cat /var/log/messages | split -2 - /tmp/x. > > not exactly as I recalled. instead of adding zz first time, adds za but ends > with yz, > then starts adding zz... Anyway: > > x.aa > x.ab > ... > x.yz > x.zaaa > x.zaab > ... > x.zyzz > x.zzaaaa > x.zzaaab
Interesting. I can confirm that textutils-1.22 behaves as above. http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/textutils/textutils-1.22.tar.gz I'll have a look later this evening to see when/why this changed. cheers, Pádraig.
