Question about split's -b option

Doug Shea <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:38:19 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
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	Why does the split command's -b option only allow bytes, kilobytes, and 
megabytes? The support function that it calls to translate such things 
supports much more than that, but split calls it in such a way to 
explicitly limit it to those three choices. I assume this is 
intentional, and I'd be curious to know why. Thanks.

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