Loraine Kanervisto

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Exploring permutations and a mystery with BSD and GNU split filenames

Exploring permutations and a mystery with BSD and GNU split filenames

Recently, I was playing around with the split command-line tool on Mac OS X, and I decided to chop a 4000-line file into 4000 separate single-line files. However, when I attempted to run split -l1, I ran into a funny error: split: too many files Curious to see if any

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bsd gnu commandline split permutations osx
3 years ago