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| author | Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> | 2023-05-30 12:55:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Christos Margiolis <christos@FreeBSD.org> | 2023-05-30 12:55:38 +0000 |
| commit | c4f7198f47c15eece849d06e8fdd1fb46ed43bba (patch) | |
| tree | 06d62bbd9d437f38754f1f7144cdbadeb914d486 /usr.bin/split/split.1 | |
| parent | c45d6b0ec011d5c113e0f7dedfc0070e8464fbbc (diff) | |
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/split/split.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/split/split.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/split/split.1 b/usr.bin/split/split.1 index 14ea2eec8dad..ee7c3d412db4 100644 --- a/usr.bin/split/split.1 +++ b/usr.bin/split/split.1 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)split.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/16/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 18, 2023 +.Dd May 26, 2023 .Dt SPLIT 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -151,7 +151,11 @@ characters in the range .Dq Li a Ns - Ns Li z . If .Fl a -is not specified, two letters are used as the suffix. +is not specified, two letters are used as the initial suffix. +If the output does not fit into the resulting number of files and the +.Fl d +flag is not specified, then the suffix length is automatically extended as +needed such that all output files continue to sort in lexical order. .Pp If the .Ar prefix |