Re: PATCH: larger output file sizes for 'split'

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Evan Hunt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Here's a one-line patch to split.c (plus a few more lines of doc changes
>> in that file and coreutils.texi) to allow it to emit output files sized in
>> gigabytes, terabytes, etc.
>
> Sounds reasonable to me, but let's do that more consistently with the other
> programs that take POSIX-specified suffixes.  Here's a proposed patch.
>
> 2007-05-02  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       The following commands and options now support the standard size
>       suffixes kB, M, MB, G, GB, and so on for T, P, Y, Z, and Y:
>       head -c, head -n, od -j, od -N, od -S, split -b, split -C,
>       tail -c, tail -n.
>       * doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation):
>       Document support for new size suffixes.
>       (head invocation, tail invocation):
>       Document that -n uses the same suffixes as -c.
>       (tail invocation): More-clearly document what leading "+" does.
>       * src/head.c (usage, string_to_integer): Support new suffixes.
>       * src/od.c (usage, main): Likewise.
>       * src/split.c (usage, main): Likewise.
>       * src/tail.c (usage, parse_options): Likewise.

Thanks!  I've checked that in.