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bug#6216: Feature request: Split -p
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Pádraig Brady |
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Subject: |
bug#6216: Feature request: Split -p |
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Date: |
Tue, 18 May 2010 23:36:09 +0100 |
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On 18/05/10 21:02, Rich Jones wrote:
> Hey guys!
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
We're about to merge a patch to do just that!
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-02/msg00034.html
I'll reply to this bug when we do.
cheers,
Pádraig.