tag 28228 notabug close 28228 thanks Hello,
On 24/08/17 02:02 PM, Xikai Jiang wrote: > When I use 'split -d -l 3 my.file' to split a file, there seems to be a > discontinuity in the numeric suffixes of the resulting files (x89 to x9000, > see the attached image.) > > Could you help on this issue? behavior is by design. Please read about it here: https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html#split The reasoning is: "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 with -a5 etc." (from: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20874). As such I'm closing this bug report, but discussion can continue by replying to this thread. regards, - assaf
