Subject: bug#43684: Problem with numerical splitting with files > 90*l

From: ned haughton <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:48:09 +1000

Fair enough. I didn't see anything about that in the help or man page,
perhaps a note should be added there?

On Wed., 30 Sep. 2020, 7:11 am Pádraig Brady, <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 29/09/2020 15:20, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> >
> >> On 29/09/2020 02:18, ned haughton wrote:
> >>> When splitting with -d, the numbering screws up after 89:
> >
> > In addition to Pádraig explanation, please see previous similar
> > discussion here:
> >
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2017-02/msg00050.html
> >     http://bugs.gnu.org/25832
>
> That reminds me it was also discussed at:
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html#split
>