On 21/02/17 20:01, Assaf Gordon wrote: > >> 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.
Excellent, used that for the basis of the update at: https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html#split thanks! Pádraig