Re: split: support unlimited number of split files

[Pádraig Brady]

On 03/02/2012 05:07 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
>> 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
> Yep. BTW, do you know where I could find the sorting rules for each
> locale? I was looking for it to help my argumentation but I did not find
> this information.
> 
>> 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 don't follow you, this issue can only occurs with the potential new
> behavior (case 2 in my first mail) : xaa ... azz ... azzaa ...
> 
> But not with the old behavior I have reimplemented : xaa ... xyz xzaaa
> xzaab ...
> 
> Or maybe I miss a special case ?

Nope you're right.
Great no issue.

cheers,
Pádraig.