From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2009-10-08T01:09:50+09:00
Subject: Re: lunix split with ruby

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Ahmet Kilic <ahmedkilic@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As as first pass (still won't be quite what you asked for) try changing:
>>
>>   "split -l 60000 #{file}"
>>
>> to:
>>
>>   "split -l 60000 #{file} #{file}-"
>>
>> that should change the output file names from "x" + "#{counter}" to
>> "#{file}" + "-" + "#{counter}"
>
> thank you for quick reply. I cold not understand  counter. Where is it
> coming?
> like this counter = 0
> and  counter file + 1 ???

Sorry, yes that was unclear; it was just representing the "aa".."az"
that split tacks on to the end of the file name.  So, I'm thinking
that will produce output files named like:

    file1.txt-aa
    file1.txt-ab
    file1.txt-ac
    file2.txt-aa
    file3.txt-ab
    ...