Awesome.  You're the man, Pádraig!

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2010/5/18 Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com>

> On 18/05/10 21:02, Rich Jones wrote:
> > Hey guys!
> >
> > Been fighting with batch splitting lately, was wondering if anybody would
> be
> > interested in having a split -p --parts feature. It would take an integer
> > and try to split the file into that many parts with as equal sizes as
> > possible.
> >
> > Example:
> > :ls
> > 2G file.dat
> > :split -p 2 file.dat
> > :ls
> > 2G file.dat
> > 1G xaa
> > 1G xab
> >
> > Would you be interested enough to code this? If not, would you be
> interested
> > enough to merge a patch?
>
> We're about to merge a patch to do just that!
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-02/msg00034.html
>
> I'll reply to this bug when we do.
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig.
>