Re: Bug in csplit

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bhagya on 8/31/2007 2:27 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed the package GNUCoreUtils using coreutils-5.3.0.exe.

Consider upgrading.  The latest stable version of coreutils is 6.9, and
has bug fixes that may improve your experience.  Since you appear to be
using a Windows compilation, you may be interested in the cygwin project,
which has a more up-to-date pre-compiled version available.

> When I was checking with the csplit command with the below example, i found
> a bug
> 
> csplit abc.txt 5 -f abccc -b %02d.txt
> 
> The above command gave two files as abccc00.txt and abccc01.txt
> abccc00.txt had 4 records and abccc01.txt had 20 records

Not a bug - you told csplit to stop at line 5.  What you appear to want is
a repeat count, as in:

csplit -f abccc -b %02d.txt -- abc.txt 5 '{*}'

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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