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Re: PATCH: larger output file sizes for 'split'
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: PATCH: larger output file sizes for 'split' |
Date: |
Thu, 03 May 2007 20:36:26 +0200 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Evan Hunt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Here's a one-line patch to split.c (plus a few more lines of doc changes
>> in that file and coreutils.texi) to allow it to emit output files sized in
>> gigabytes, terabytes, etc.
>
> Sounds reasonable to me, but let's do that more consistently with the other
> programs that take POSIX-specified suffixes. Here's a proposed patch.
>
> 2007-05-02 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>
> The following commands and options now support the standard size
> suffixes kB, M, MB, G, GB, and so on for T, P, Y, Z, and Y:
> head -c, head -n, od -j, od -N, od -S, split -b, split -C,
> tail -c, tail -n.
> * doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation):
> Document support for new size suffixes.
> (head invocation, tail invocation):
> Document that -n uses the same suffixes as -c.
> (tail invocation): More-clearly document what leading "+" does.
> * src/head.c (usage, string_to_integer): Support new suffixes.
> * src/od.c (usage, main): Likewise.
> * src/split.c (usage, main): Likewise.
> * src/tail.c (usage, parse_options): Likewise.
Thanks! I've checked that in.