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bug#20874: Split -d skips to 9000 at 90
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#20874: Split -d skips to 9000 at 90 |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:10:28 +0100 |
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On 22/06/15 10:20, Kevin Tan wrote:
> Coreutils version: 8.23-3ubuntu1
> Operating system: Ubuntu 15.04
>
> Split with numeric suffixes adds extra digits in the suffix from 90+ and
> begins counting again from the 9000s. All 90s after the first have no jumps.
>
> Example:
> split -b 2048 -d testfile.bin splitfile.
>
> With a large enough test file (721KB) the resultant files:
> splitfile.00, splitfile01, splitfile.02
> ...
> splitfile.89, splitfile.9000, splitfile.9001, splitfile.9002
> ...
> splitfile.9262, etc.
>
It's done like that so there is no limit to the number of output files,
but also that those output files sort correctly with a lexical sort.
If you want consecutive numbers then specify enough digits wiht -a5 etc.
thanks,
Pádraig.