bug#6554: [PATCH] split: Additional suffix for split (bug#6554)

2012-02-19 Thread Jérémy Compostella
Pádraig, I replaced --suffix with --additional-suffix and made some cleaning. Feel free to comment the attached patch. Cheers, Jérémy From bd80ac876c64fa0fac409b24311d30bd43d34dbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=A9r=C3=A9my=20Compostella?= jeremy.composte...@gmail.com Date: Sun,

bug#6554: [PATCH] split: Additional suffix for split (bug#6554)

2012-02-18 Thread Jérémy Compostella
All, I'm continuing with this feature implementation. Getting advantage on my newly acquired experience on this project I made some changes in my implementation. Now I have a concern about the option name --suffix. I think the --suffix-length, --numeric-suffixes and the new --suffix are

bug#9085: 'split' feature request: an option to uses e.g. '.001' as first suffix.

2012-01-30 Thread Jérémy Compostella
, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net a écrit : Pádraig Brady wrote: On 01/30/2012 10:29 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 01/29/2012 10:34 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote: Pádraig, Sci-Fi, others, I made an implementation of the requested feature. With the attached patch applied the split command

bug#9085: 'split' feature request: an option to uses e.g. '.001' as first suffix.

2012-01-30 Thread Jérémy Compostella
Pádraig, Jim, others, - Solution 1: Pádraig wrotes: I wonder might we have a separate option, --suffix-start, and theoretically that could accept alphabetic options too? I'm not suggesting we do this, but it's worth discussion. That's was my first idea but since your first mail subject was

bug#9085: 'split' feature request: an option to uses e.g. '.001' as first suffix.

2012-01-30 Thread Jérémy Compostella
Pádraig wrotes: On 01/30/2012 05:33 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote: Pádraig, Jim, others, - Solution 1: Pádraig wrotes: I wonder might we have a separate option, --suffix-start, and theoretically that could accept alphabetic options too? I'm not suggesting we do this, but it's worth

bug#9085: 'split' feature request: an option to uses e.g. '.001' as first suffix.

2012-01-30 Thread Jérémy Compostella
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 01/30/2012 05:33 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote: Pádraig, Jim, others, - Solution 1: Pádraig wrotes: I wonder might we have a separate option, --suffix-start, and theoretically that could accept alphabetic options too? I'm not suggesting we do this, but it's

bug#6554: [PATCH] split: Additional suffix for split (bug#6554)

2012-01-29 Thread Jérémy Compostella
On 01/28/2012 00:00 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 01/28/2012 11:57 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote: [...] I should note that --suffix is incompatible with a variable length generated suffix. I.E. one that would allow for arbitrary sized input: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils

bug#9085: 'split' feature request: an option to uses e.g. '.001' as first suffix.

2012-01-29 Thread Jérémy Compostella
Pádraig, Sci-Fi, others, I made an implementation of the requested feature. With the attached patch applied the split command accepts a new optional from argument for the --numeric-suffixes (aka -d) option. If this argument is specified, the numeric suffix counts from this value, otherwise, like

bug#6554: [PATCH] split: Additional suffix for split (bug#6554)

2012-01-28 Thread Jérémy Compostella
Pádraig Brady wrotes: Thanks a lot for working on this. Could you give a real world example where you find this useful, just for the record. It's useful in some cases where the chunk files type is known. As for example, when I split a file which is a concatenation of several bitmap files of