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authorTim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2005-08-21 06:35:02 +0000
committerTim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2005-08-21 06:35:02 +0000
commite93586df9d2139aa4082b26e077a5fd802b67a5a (patch)
tree2eea83d3742e741241c964b22dfe0381093d992d /usr.bin/split/split.1
parent8b78b3dc58ca6213aed4dbb134bc10d66f035467 (diff)
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diff --git a/usr.bin/split/split.1 b/usr.bin/split/split.1
index 70ed146cc5a1..1383671f5833 100644
--- a/usr.bin/split/split.1
+++ b/usr.bin/split/split.1
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ is not specified, two letters are used as the suffix.
If the
.Ar name
argument is not specified, the file is split into lexically ordered
-files named with prefixes in the range of
-.Dq Li x-z
+files named with the prefix
+.Dq Li x
and with suffixes as above.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
The
@@ -139,12 +139,10 @@ A
command appeared in
.At v3 .
.Sh BUGS
-For historical reasons, if you specify
-.Ar name ,
+For historical reasons,
.Nm
can only create 676 separate
files.
-The default naming convention allows 2028 separate files.
The
.Fl a
option can be used to work around this limitation.