tag 20874 notabug close 20874 stop On 22/06/15 10:20, Kevin Tan wrote: > Coreutils version: 8.23-3ubuntu1 > Operating system: Ubuntu 15.04 > > Split with numeric suffixes adds extra digits in the suffix from 90+ and > begins counting again from the 9000s. All 90s after the first have no jumps. > > Example: > split -b 2048 -d testfile.bin splitfile. > > With a large enough test file (721KB) the resultant files: > splitfile.00, splitfile01, splitfile.02 > ... > splitfile.89, splitfile.9000, splitfile.9001, splitfile.9002 > ... > splitfile.9262, etc. >
It's done like that so there is no limit to the number of output files, but also that those output files sort correctly with a lexical sort. If you want consecutive numbers then specify enough digits wiht -a5 etc. thanks, Pádraig.
