Hi, My first bug-reporting. I discovered a *cosmetic* bug in 'split' command. I wanted to split a file in 'n' chunks, with suffix 'a' chars wide and numeric suffix starting from 'd'. I tried $ split -n10 -a4 -d5 echo.txt split: cannot split in more than one way Try 'split --help' for more information. where as using longer option for `-d` i.e. `--numeric-suffixes` works fine. $ split -n10 -a4 --numeric-suffixes=5 echo.txt FYI: I had asked it on unix.stackexchange as well, for reference http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/225704/17265 -Thanks, Md Tareque Khan