Re: [patch] Adding Numerical Suffixes to Split

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> 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  <address@hidden>
>
>         * doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation):
>       Add -d or --numeric-suffixes option to 'split'.
>         From a suggestion by Jesse Kornblum.
>       * src/split.c (suffix_alphabet): New var.
>         (longopts, usage, next_file_name, main): Support -d.
>         (next_file_name, main): Allow -a0, as POSIX requires.
>         (next_file_name): Don't assume ASCII-like encoding;
>       'a' through 'z' are not contiguous in EBCDIC.

Thanks!
I've applied that.

However, I have my doubts about allowing -a0.
Do you see any practical value in that?
It makes split degenerate to `cp', but with the
limitation that it fails if there is too much input.
Hmm... when now that I've written the preceding sentence,
I *can* imagine a use for it :-)

I've fixed the test (tests/misc/split-fail), too.