src/usr.bin/split, branch release/8.1.0

When "-b" is specified, one could easily create "smaller" files

2009-01-24T05:32:11Z

that are much larger than expected (given the default size). Change "smaller files" to "split files" which is more in line with what "-b" actually does. PR: 119329 Submitted by: Julian Stacey

Add a -n option to split(1) to split files into N chunks rather than

2008-03-16T15:15:32Z

having to specify the right number of bytes. Obtained from: NetBSD Submitted by: Jan Schaumann PR: 113175

Markup fixes.

2006-09-29T15:20:48Z

Add support for splitting at gigabyte boundaries. [1]

2006-08-10T10:41:47Z

Also make both lowercase and uppercase suffix letters work as byte-count suffixes, i.e. the following two commands are equivalent now: % split -b 4m foo % split -b 4M foo Submitted by: Roman Divacky [1] Lots of help by: cperciva Reviewed by: cperciva MFC after: 1 week

Update usage & SYNOPSIS and clarify that input files are not removed.

2006-08-08T21:25:22Z

Sort getopt option handling of -p too, while here. The changes are adapted from a patch by Ruslan Ermilov, posted as followup to docs/33852. PR: docs/33852 Submitted by: Gary W. Swearingen MFC after: 1 week

-mdoc sweep.

2005-11-18T10:36:29Z

Include option-argument names in the list in the DESCRIPTION section.

2005-08-30T12:48:28Z

Remove a non-bug from the BUGS section.

Remove undocumented historic support for treating "-" as an option

2005-08-30T12:32:18Z

instead of a file operand; this is not compatible with POSIX.

Remove the hack that varied the first character of the output file name

2005-08-21T06:35:02Z

if none was specified on the command line. This is not permitted by POSIX, and no longer needed now that we have the -a option. PR: 85099 Submitted by: Toby Peterson (Apple Computer)

Added the EXIT STATUS section where appropriate.

2005-01-17T07:44:44Z