On 1/12/21 10:25 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Well dealing with remainders would be an argument for implementing > --number=L/N as it could distribute lines more evenly. > > I.e. --number=L/N would be like l/N, but it would > try harder to evenly distribute lines, > by identifying the number of lines up front, > and determining which chunks would get an extra line > to cater for the remainders.
The original case was to split a file into 2 pieces, and several ways to solve this problem have already been presented. Everything beyond sounds even more like an extreme corner case and not really worth adding complexity. Unless it's a trivial extension (which I doubt), I'm against adding it. Have a nice day, Berny
