Re: split: support unlimited number of split files

[Pádraig Brady]

On 03/02/2012 04:27 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
>>> [...]
>> That's problematic.
>> Is your locale ar_SA? as that's the only one
>> on my system that triggers:
> My locale is fr_FR.utf8
> 
>>  for loc in $(locale -a | grep -vF .); do
>>    echo $loc;  printf "%s\n" 2 1 . | LC_ALL=$loc sort
>>  done | grep 1 -B1 | grep _
>>
>> Note the ar_SA case may be just a bug in glibc's LC_COLLATE
>> definition for that locale?
> 
> Yes, but give a try to:
> 
>   for loc in $(locale -a | grep -vF .); do
>      echo $loc; printf "%s\n" .b a. | LC_ALL=$loc sort
>   done| grep a. -B1 | grep _
> 
> In most of the case, 'a.' will be sorted before '.b'

Ah drats, yes you need to check the combinations.

$ printf "%s\n" .b a. | LC_ALL=en_US sort
a.
.b

$ printf "%s\n" . a | LC_ALL=en_US sort
.
a

So that means we can't have a variable length generated suffix
in combination with --additional-suffix.

2 options I see for that.

1. Make --additional-suffix require --suffix-length
2. Make this variable length suffix only on with --suffix-length=auto
and have that mutually exclusive with --additional-suffix

I'm leaning towards 1.

cheers,
Pádraig.