GNU bug report logs - #6554
[coreutils] Additional suffix for split

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 19:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 6554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 6554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6554: [coreutils] Additional suffix for split
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:28:48 -0600
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> wrote:
> [adding bug-coreutils, to create a bug id to track this by]
>
> On 06/15/2010 09:23 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> I need to add an additional common suffix to the files splited by
>> split. Right now, I have to use mv to do so. But I feel it is
>> convenient to have an option to add the suffix. Is this feature going
>> to be considered to be added in the future?
>
> Hmm, considering that we recently taught mktemp how to honor suffixes,
> it does indeed sound like this might be a useful feature addition.  It's
> probably not going to be my highest priority to write such a patch, but
> I'll gladly review any patch written by someone else.

I'm wondering if this feature has been added to 'split'.
-- 
Regards,
Peng




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