Subject: Re: bug#6216: Feature request: Split -p

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 23:36:09 +0100

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.