Subject: Re: bug#7241: closed (Re: bug#7241: Possible bug on split ?)

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:30:43 +0200

Ulf Zibis wrote:
> You could write:
>
> `-b SIZE'
> `--bytes=SIZE'
>      Put SIZE bytes of INPUT into each output file.  SIZE may be, or
>      may be an integer optionally followed by, one of the following
>      multiplicative suffixes:
>           `b'     =>             512 ("blocks")
>           `KB'    =>            1000 (KiloBytes)
>           `K'     =>            1024 (KibiBytes)
>           `MB'    =>       1000*1000 (MegaBytes)
>           `M','m' =>       1024*1024 (MebiBytes)

Thanks, but I'd rather not encourage the use of "m", seeing as how
it's irregular.  With no documentation, we have more flexibility, if
we decide to deprecated it and eventually remove support for it some day.
If we document it, that's an implicit endorsement and more of a
commitment.

>           `GB'    =>  1000*1000*1000 (GigaBytes)
>           `G'     =>  1024*1024*1024 (GibiBytes)
>      and so on for `T', `P', `E', `Z', and `Y'.
>
>
> For split --help you could write (I only have the german version):
>
> GRÖßE kann eine der folgenden Abkürzungen sein (oder eine Zahl, die optional
> von einer der Abkürzungen gefolgt wird):
> KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000x1000, M or m 1024x1024 und so weiter für G, T, P, E, Z, Y.