bin/119329: Fix misleading man 1 split
Julian Stacey
jhs at berklix.org
Fri Jan 4 02:20:01 PST 2008
>Number: 119329
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Fix misleading man 1 split
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 04 10:20:00 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Julian Stacey <jhs at berklix.com>
>Release: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
http://berklix.com
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD laps.js.berklix.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Dec 5 22:11:04 CET 2007 jhs at laps.js.berklix.net:/usr1/ftp/pri/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/686/src/sys/i386/compile/LAPS.small i386
>Description:
The word "smaller" is misleading,
as on first reading, one assumes -b will create smaller than default size,
& only if one tries to specify eg -b 1000000 does one discover one can
get "smaller" files of 1000000 that are larger than the default of ~70K
(taking split /var/log/messages.0 as example)
>How-To-Repeat:
man split
>Fix:
http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/freebsd/src/gen/usr.bin/split/split.1.REL=ALL.diff
*** FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE/src/usr.bin/split/split.1.old Fri Jan 4 10:58:52 2008
--- new-generic/src/usr.bin/split/split.1 Fri Jan 4 10:59:33 2008
***************
*** 66,72 ****
.Ar suffix_length
letters to form the suffix of the file name.
.It Fl b
! Create smaller files
.Ar byte_count
bytes in length.
If
--- 66,72 ----
.Ar suffix_length
letters to form the suffix of the file name.
.It Fl b
! Create split files
.Ar byte_count
bytes in length.
If
***************
*** 80,86 ****
.Ar byte_count
megabyte pieces.
.It Fl l
! Create smaller files
.Ar n
lines in length.
.It Fl p Ar pattern
--- 80,86 ----
.Ar byte_count
megabyte pieces.
.It Fl l
! Create split files
.Ar n
lines in length.
.It Fl p Ar pattern
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