Re: address@hidden: [bug-obsolete-packages] Bug in csplit?]

[Jim Meyering]

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for the report, but you sent it to an obsolete address.
Luckily, an admin was kind enough to forward it to me.  (thanks, Karl!)
Please use address@hidden in the future.

> From: Anthony Stone <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [bug-obsolete-packages] Bug in csplit?
>
> There appears to be a bug in csplit (Suse 10.2) -- the {*} argument is
> not acted on, though no error is given.
>
> uname -a says:
> Linux fandango 2.6.18.8-0.9-default #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:48:05 UTC 2008
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Please provide more detail to help us help you:

  - csplit --version

If the version is too old, consider retesting with
a newer version of csplit.  The latest stable one is
from coreutils-6.12.

  - provide a concrete example:
      1) the exact command you ran
      2) any inputs you used (the smaller the better)
      3) the results it produced
      4) the results you expected

If something might depend on your locale settings,
also include the output of running the "locale" command.
Anything else you think might be relevant.

You may have just omitted quotes.
For reference, here's a use of csplit:
[yes, that belongs in the manual, so I've just added it to
 "info coreutils csplit"]

    # create and run the test in an empty directory
    $ mkdir d && cd d

    # Split the sequence of 1..14 on lines that end with 0 or 5
    $ seq 14 |csplit - '/[05]$/' '{*}'
    8
    10
    15

    # Show that it created 3 files
    $ ls
    xx00  xx01  xx02

    # Show their contents
    $ head xx*
    ==> xx00 <==
    1
    2
    3
    4

    ==> xx01 <==
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9

    ==> xx02 <==
    10
    11
    12
    13
    14