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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/split/split.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/split/split.1 | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/split/split.1 b/usr.bin/split/split.1 index a25e3c6ea25..29b2a8d4471 100644 --- a/usr.bin/split/split.1 +++ b/usr.bin/split/split.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: split.1,v 1.15 2007/05/31 01:35:35 jschauma Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: split.1,v 1.16 2023/01/30 15:22:02 jschauma Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)split.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/16/94 .\" -.Dd May 28, 2007 +.Dd January 28, 2023 .Dt SPLIT 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -99,7 +99,12 @@ characters in the range .Dq Li a-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, then the suffix length is automatically +extended as needed such that all output files continue +to sort in lexical order. .Pp If the .Ar name |
