Subject: Re: bug#6216: Feature request: Split -p
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: Rich Jones <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:17:23 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 18/05/10 23:36, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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.

Fixed with http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=be107398

cheers,
Pádraig.