Hi, > 4. Auto set the suffix len based on FROM + CHUNK. > That would support use case 1 (single run), > but _silently_ break subsequent processing order > of outputs from multiple split runs > (as FROM is increased in multiples of CHUNK size). > We could mitigate the _silent_ breakage though > by limiting this change to when FROM < CHUNK. > > 5. Document in man page and with more detail in info docs > that -a is recommended when specifying FROM > > So I'll do 4 and 5 I think.
Thanks, that would solve the problem I was having. Please feel free to end this conversation here, but if you can spare the time I’d be very interested in an example of a multiple split run for my own education/understanding/curiosity? I assume you mean processing subsets of the input, but can’t see how to do that (after experimenting on the command line and searching the documentation) except —number=l/k/n which does know the size of the total set? Thanks again, Ben
