Re: [PATCH] split: --chunks option

[Pádraig Brady]

On 14/12/09 21:04, Chen Guo wrote:
> Hi all,
>      I'm about to implement everything we discussed. One thing I want to double 
> check is, since we have --number-lines=x/y and --number-bytes=x/y as the long 
> options, obviously we can't just use -n for the short option.
>      So would it be acceptable to do -nb=x/y and -nl=x/y? This seems the most 
> intuitive to me, but I can see where this would cause confusion with the -b and 
> -l options. What do you guys think?

You can't do -nl unfortunately.
You could just add 1 new option: -n --number
This could then be used like:

-n bytes:4  => bytes per file = size/number
-n 4        => ditto
-n lines:4  => ditto but don't split lines

cheers,
Pádraig.