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 > > 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.
