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split issue?

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From: Xikai Jiang <xikai <at> uchicago.edu>
To: "bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org" <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: split issue?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:02:07 +0000

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Dear GNU developers:

When I use 'split -d -l 3 my.file' to split a file, there seems to be a discontinuity in the numeric suffixes of the resulting files (x89 to x9000, see the attached image.)

Could you help on this issue?

Thanks in advance for your time.

Regards,
Xikai

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: Xikai Jiang <xikai <at> uchicago.edu>, 28228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28228: split issue?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:59:43 -0600

tag 28228 notabug
close 28228
thanks

Hello,

On 24/08/17 02:02 PM, Xikai Jiang wrote:
> When I use 'split -d -l 3 my.file' to split a file, there seems to be a discontinuity in the numeric suffixes of the resulting files (x89 to x9000, see the attached image.)
> 
> Could you help on this issue?

behavior is by design.
Please read about it here:
  https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html#split

The reasoning is:
"It's done like that so there is no limit to the number of output files,
but also that those output files sort correctly with a lexical sort.
If you want consecutive numbers then specify enough digits with -a5 etc."
(from: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20874).

As such I'm closing this bug report, but discussion can continue
by replying to this thread.

regards,
 - assaf

Message #15 received at 28228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Xikai Jiang <xikai <at> uchicago.edu>
To: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>, "28228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org"
 <28228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#28228: split issue?
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:23:26 +0000

Hi Assaf:

Ok, I see. I'll use -a5 for large number of splitted files then.

Thanks for your explanations.

Regards, Xikai

________________________________________
From: Assaf Gordon [assafgordon <at> gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 4:59 PM
To: Xikai Jiang; 28228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28228: split issue?

tag 28228 notabug
close 28228
thanks

Hello,

On 24/08/17 02:02 PM, Xikai Jiang wrote:
> When I use 'split -d -l 3 my.file' to split a file, there seems to be a discontinuity in the numeric suffixes of the resulting files (x89 to x9000, see the attached image.)
>
> Could you help on this issue?

behavior is by design.
Please read about it here:
  https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html#split

The reasoning is:
"It's done like that so there is no limit to the number of output files,
but also that those output files sort correctly with a lexical sort.
If you want consecutive numbers then specify enough digits with -a5 etc."
(from: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20874).

As such I'm closing this bug report, but discussion can continue
by replying to this thread.

regards,
 - assaf

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