Bug 119329

Summary:

[patch] Fix misleading man 1 split

Product:

Documentation

Reporter:

jhs

Component:

Books & Articles

Assignee:

Tom Rhodes <trhodes>

Status:

Closed FIXED

Severity:

Affects Only Me

Priority:

Normal

Version:

Latest

Hardware:

Any

OS:

Any

Attachments:

Description	Flags
file.diff	none

Description jhs 2008-01-04 10:20:00 UTC

	
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)

Fix: http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/freebsd/src/gen/usr.bin/split/split.1.REL=ALL.diff
How-To-Repeat: 	
	man split

Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2008-01-04 11:18:06 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc

Move this over to docs.

Comment 2 dfilter service freebsd_committer

2009-01-24 05:32:26 UTC

Author: trhodes
Date: Sat Jan 24 05:32:11 2009
New Revision: 187663
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187663

Log:
  When "-b" is specified, one could easily create "smaller" files
  that are much larger than expected (given the default size).
  Change "smaller files" to "split files" which is more in line
  with what "-b" actually does.
  
  PR:		119329
  Submitted by:	Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org>

Modified:
  head/usr.bin/split/split.1

Modified: head/usr.bin/split/split.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/split/split.1	Sat Jan 24 04:08:00 2009	(r187662)
+++ head/usr.bin/split/split.1	Sat Jan 24 05:32:11 2009	(r187663)
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)split.1	8.3 (Berkeley) 4/16/94
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd March 16, 2008
+.Dd January 23, 2009
 .Dt SPLIT 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ letters to form the suffix of the file n
 .Cm K | k | M | m | G | g
 .Sm on
 .Oc
-Create smaller files
+Create split files
 .Ar byte_count
 bytes in length.
 If
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ is appended to the number, the file is s
 .Ar byte_count
 gigabyte pieces.
 .It Fl l Ar line_count
-Create smaller files
+Create split files
 .Ar line_count
 lines in length.
 .It Fl n Ar chunk_count
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Comment 3 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer

2009-01-24 05:33:04 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->patched

Patch applied along with a doc bump date, thanks!

Comment 4 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer

2009-01-24 05:33:04 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes

Over to me.

Comment 5 dfilter service freebsd_committer

2011-06-14 23:40:28 UTC

Author: gjb (doc committer)
Date: Tue Jun 14 22:40:13 2011
New Revision: 223101
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/223101

Log:
  MFC 187663 by trhodes:
  
  When "-b" is specified, one could easily create "smaller" files
  that are much larger than expected (given the default size).
  Change "smaller files" to "split files" which is more in line
  with what "-b" actually does.
  
  PR:		119329

Modified:
  stable/7/usr.bin/split/split.1
Directory Properties:
  stable/7/usr.bin/split/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/7/usr.bin/split/split.1
==============================================================================
--- stable/7/usr.bin/split/split.1	Tue Jun 14 22:37:09 2011	(r223100)
+++ stable/7/usr.bin/split/split.1	Tue Jun 14 22:40:13 2011	(r223101)
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)split.1	8.3 (Berkeley) 4/16/94
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd August 10, 2006
+.Dd January 23, 2009
 .Dt SPLIT 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ letters to form the suffix of the file n
 .Cm K | k | M | m | G | g
 .Sm on
 .Oc
-Create smaller files
+Create split files
 .Ar byte_count
 bytes in length.
 If
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ is appended to the number, the file is s
 .Ar byte_count
 gigabyte pieces.
 .It Fl l Ar line_count
-Create smaller files
+Create split files
 .Ar line_count
 lines in length.
 .It Fl p Ar pattern
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Comment 6 Glen Barber freebsd_committer

2011-06-14 23:41:11 UTC

State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

MFCd to stable/7.