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Old 09-02-2009
Please look at your "man split" and advise whether you have the "-a" switch available. This would allow you to extent the range of suffixes by more multiples of 26 .
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Old 09-03-2009
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Originally Posted by methyl
Please look at your "man split" and advise whether you have the "-a" switch available. This would allow you to extent the range of suffixes by more multiples of 26 .
Thanks for your support.
"-a" option will work successfully. But we are not able to fix the "-a suffixlength". Any dynamic updation of the suffixlength for every time.
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Old 09-03-2009
If use say "-a 4" this gives you up to 26x26x26x26=456,976 suffix combinations (aaaa-zzzz) which at 5000 records per file comes to 2,284,880,000 maximum input records.

Not sure if I understand your question. If your "-a" value is high enough you don't need to know the number of records in advance.

If you are creating large numbers of files be careful that you have enough inodes in the filesystem (df -i).
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