> On Feb 21, 2017, at 22:32, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: > > This was discussed at http://bugs.gnu.org/20874
Missed that - sorry. I should've looked through the archives first... > I'm not sure anything needs to be done here, > since for backward compat for concat operations > expecting lexical sort we use the current auto widening scheme. I wonder if users who ask for --numeric-suffixes also implicitly prefer an intuitive order (one that won't work for lexical sorting but would with version sort). But that is a new feature, and perhaps a backwards-incompatible one. However the fact that "--numeric-suffixes=0" and "--numeric-suffixes" both start from zero but behave differently if there's more than 90 output files is a bit unintuitive (because '=0' implies max-length). Perhaps worth adding to the 'coreutils gotchas' page? Attached is a suggestion for such text. regards, -assaf
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