Re: [patch] Adding Numerical Suffixes to Split

2003-08-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about this patch instead? It fixes a couple of minor > POSIX-compliance bugs in split, while I was in the neighborhood. > > 2003-08-07 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): > Add -d or --numeric-suf

[patch] Adding Numerical Suffixes to Split

2003-08-14 Thread Capt Jesse Kornblum USAF
Sorry it's been so long since I've written; the Air Force moved me in the past month. I'm still interested in adding support for numerical suffixes to split. Several people have commented that the change from alphabetic suffixes to numerical ones can be accomplished via a shell script. That's t

Re: [patch] Adding Numerical Suffixes to Split

2003-08-11 Thread Paul Eggert
Capt Jesse Kornblum USAF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry it's been so long since I've written... No problem. Thanks for following up on this. > Why should the user have to remember a long line of arcane shell > commands instead of just adding a single command line flag that > already exist