Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
