bug#9455: RFE: split --balanced (original) (raw)

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From: Dave Yost
Subject: bug#9455: RFE: split --balanced
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:55:51 -0700

Z% for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 for> do echo $x ; done | split --lines=3
pipe> && for x in x?? ; do echo "=== x";catx" ; cat x";catx ; done === xaa 1 2 3 === xab 4 5 6 === xac 7

In some applications, you would like split to more evenly apportion the output to the files, like this:

Z% for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 for> do echo $x ; done | split --balanced --lines=3
pipe> && for x in x?? ; do echo "=== x";catx" ; cat x";catx ; done === xaa 1 2 3 === xab 4 5 === xac 6 7