[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#6216: closed (Feature request: Split -p)

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> Feature request: Split -p
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> Tue, 18 May 2010 16:02:14 -0400
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> Hey guys!
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> 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.
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> Example:
> :ls
> 2G file.dat
> :split -p 2 file.dat
> :ls
> 2G file.dat
> 1G xaa
> 1G xab
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> Would you be interested enough to code this? If not, would you be interested enough to merge a patch? 
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> Thanks,
> Rich
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> Re: bug#6216: Feature request: Split -p
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> Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:17:23 +0000
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> On 18/05/10 23:36, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > On 18/05/10 21:02, Rich Jones wrote:
> >> Hey guys!
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> >> 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.
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> >> Example:
> >> :ls
> >> 2G file.dat
> >> :split -p 2 file.dat
> >> :ls
> >> 2G file.dat
> >> 1G xaa
> >> 1G xab
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> >> Would you be interested enough to code this? If not, would you be interested
> >> enough to merge a patch?
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> > We're about to merge a patch to do just that!
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-02/msg00034.html
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> > I'll reply to this bug when we do.
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> Fixed with http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=be107398
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> cheers,
> Pádraig.
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