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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)
Remove the hack that varied the first character of the output file name
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)
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=149345
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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.